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Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Nuclear Weapons Policy, Military - Weapons - Nuclear Weapons
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The Nightmare Considered

by Nancy Anisfield
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Overview

These essays assess the nature of nuclear war literature from a variety of perspectives. Scholars, activists, novelists, poets, and teachers challenge nuclear ideologies and traditional readings of apocalyptic texts. Included: Holocaust literature of the 1950s, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, poetry and nuclear war, Riddley Walker, Fiskadoro, haiku and Hiroshima, Kopit’s End of the World, O’Brien’s The Nuclear Age, and Vonnegut’s cataclysmic novels.

Synopsis

These essays assess the nature of nuclear war literature from a variety of perspectives. Scholars, activists, novelists, poets, and teachers challenge nuclear ideologies and traditional readings of apocalyptic texts.

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Book Details

Published
June 1, 1991
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pages
210
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780879725303

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