The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature
University of Wisconsin Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-87972-529-7 | Paper: 978-0-87972-530-3
Library of Congress Classification PN56.N83N54 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93358
Cloth: 978-0-87972-529-7 | Paper: 978-0-87972-530-3
Library of Congress Classification PN56.N83N54 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93358
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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