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Author:

Hurley, Jessica (Professor of literature), author.

Title:

Infrastructures of apocalypse : American literature and the nuclear complex / Jessica Hurley.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

294 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

1900-1999
Nuclear warfare in literature.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.
End of the world in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Nuclear warfare and literature.
American literature.
American literature--Minority authors.
Apocalyptic literature.
End of the world in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Nuclear warfare and literature.
Nuclear warfare in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: End Times -- White Sovereignty and the Nuclear State -- Civil Defense and Black Apocalypse -- Star Wars, AIDS, and Queer Endings -- Nuclear Waste, Native America, Narrative Form -- Coda: Nuclear Entanglements.

Summary:

"A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1517908744
9781517908744
1517908736
9781517908737

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1154120052

LCCN:

2020020417

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)