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03757aam a2200397Ia 4500 001 C50CB224744411E3B32AB1E9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140103010023 008 130711s2013 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1443844799 020 $a 9781443844796 035 $a (OCoLC)852536567 040 $a MYG $c MYG $d ZCU $d IQU $d MUU $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.N83 $b S55 2013 050 14 $a TK9153 $b .S55 2013 245 04 $a The silence of fallout : $b nuclear criticism in a post-Cold War world / $c edited by Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, Jack Taylor. 246 30 $a Nuclear criticism in a post-Cold War world 260 $a Newcastle on Tyne, UK : $b Cambridge Scholars Publishing ; $c 2013. 300 $a xvii, 279 p. : $b ill. ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Index. $r John Canaday -- $t Introduction : the silence of fallout / $r Michael J. Blouin, Morgan Shipley and Jack Taylor -- $t "What works" : instrumentalism, ideology, and nostalgia in post-Cold War culture / $r Jeff Smith -- $t Specters of totality : the afterlife of the nuclear age / $r Aaron Rosenberg -- $t Queer temporalities of the nuclear condition / $r Paul K. Saint-Amour -- $t Apocalypse networks : representing the nuclear archive / $r Bradley J. Fest -- $t Cut to black : nuclear criticism in a post-September 11th America / $r Joseph Dewey -- $t The pixilated apocalypse : video games and nuclear fears, 1980-2012 / $r William Knoblauch -- $t Depiction of destruction : post-Cold War literary representations of storytelling and survival in the nuclear era / $r Julie Williams -- $t Allegories of Hiroshima : toward a rhetoric of nuclear modernism / $r Mark Pedretti -- $t War as peace : afterlives of nuclear war in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / $r Jessica Hurley -- $t The hunger games : Darwinism and nuclear apocalypse narrative in the post-9/11 world / $r Patrick B. Sharp -- $t Legacy waste : nuclear culture after the Cold War / $r Daniel Cordle -- $t In a dark wud : metaphors, narratives, and nucelar weapons / $r John Canaday -- $t Contributors -- $t Index. 520 $a "This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in contemporary scholarship (and society at-large). Scholars who were active in earlier expressions of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent scholars likewise striving to negotiate the field moving forward. This volume revolves around these dialogic moments of agreement and departure; refusing the silence of complacency, the authors renew this conversation while taking it in exciting new directions. As political paradigms shift and awareness of nuclear issues manifests in alternative forms, the collected essays establish groundwork for future generations caught in a perpetual struggle with legacies of the nuclear." -- $c Publisher website. 650 0 $a Nuclear warfare and literature. 650 0 $a Nuclear warfare $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Nuclear energy $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Nuclear energy $x Public opinion. 650 0 $a Nuclear power plants $x Public opinion. 650 0 $a Nuclear energy $x Decision making. 700 1 $a Blouin, Michael J. 700 1 $a Shipley, Morgan. 700 1 $a Taylor, Jack. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222024502.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20140103011056.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C50CB224744411E3B32AB1E9DAD10320 994 $a Z0 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search