...Claudia Milian Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America . By Anderson Mark D. . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . x , 241 pp. Cloth , $49.50 ; paper , $22.50 ; e-book , $22.50 . Race, Ethnicity, and Nuclear War...

...Lisa Lynch Lynch’s essay explores the divergence between the symbolic imaginary of nuclear power and the imaginative terrain of environmentalism through a look at documentary film about the civilian nuclear industry. Lynch first analyzes several films about US antireactor activism produced...

... depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear waste commissioned by the Department of Energy to show that a risk-based realism is used to maintain the status quo of settler colonialism. It then turns to a countermodeling of the futures of nuclear waste by Leslie Marmon Silko...

... of nuclear war from which only art and the novel form can protect its readers. 844  American Literature The strongest sections of The Prestige of Violence deal with the Vietnam War. The Manichean morality of nuclear war did not apply to the catachresis of language and meaning that defined...

... Paul K. 2000 . “ Bombing and the Symptom: Traumatic Earliness and the Nuclear Uncanny .” Diacritics 30 , no. 4 : 59 – 82 . Salen Katie Zimmerman Eric . 2003 . Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals . Cambridge : MIT Press . Smuts Aaron . 2005 . “ Are Videogames Art...

...- litical realities such as the threat of nuclear annihilation. His gambit is to concede that Cold War conditions really did harm mainstream poetic practice but to demonstrate as well that returning these poems to their social texts improves our experience and understanding of them. Chapters on the role...

... : Duke Univ. Press . Cordle Daniel . 2008 . States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism, and United States Fiction and Prose . Manchester, UK : Manchester Univ. Press . Dee Jonathan . 1986 . “ The Art of Fiction XCII: John Hersey ,” Paris Review 100 ( Summer-Fall...

...-Communist texts can’t be art. How then does this political ideology find aesthetic form? The supposedly realist politics of the vital center of liberal anti-Communism had to look to modernist antirealism to answer this question, as popular culture (the novel of nuclear catastrophe, the spy thriller...

...), and Walter Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960). The most compelling chapters were those where Seed’s attention turned to lesser-known writers such as Mordecai Roshwald. Level 7, Roshwald’s 1959 novel about an automated nuclear defense system gone awry, reveals the way the military-industrial...

.... In ways as yet largely unexamined, US poetry and narrative fiction have documented and contested the social, cultural, and ideological work performed by these infrastructures, often “interrogat[ing]” as Jessica Hurley ( 2020 : 3) shows in her study of US nuclear infrastructure, “the racist, sexist...

... to be spiritual.” Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty . By Molly Wallace. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2016. viii, 264. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $39.95; e-book available. Deploying “nuclear” as “a synecdoche for global environmental risk,” this study crafts...

... the machines: to win what , exactly? The same question haunts The Matrix ’s sibling franchise, the Terminator trilogy and its many spinoffs: if indeed the Earth has been rendered an uninhabitable hellscape by nuclear war or by unspecified means that “scorched the sky” (Wachowski and Wachowski 1999 ), why...

... acidification of the world’s oceans, the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, another massive oil spill off the coast of Nigeria, and the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast—in sharpening the sense of major crisis among the majority of our planet’s inhabitants...

... of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, 461–63. Lynch, Lisa. “‘We Don’t Wanna Be Radiated’: Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism,” 327–51. McCabe, Nancy. Review: Aubry, Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does...

... of the people of the Marshall Islands after nuclear bombs are tested by the American military— and challenges the notion of transhistorical trauma which posits that “the land represents the present-day victim status of peoples associated with that land- scape” (94). Each individual, Balaev argues...

... trau- matic event—here, the displacement and health problems of the people of the Marshall Islands after nuclear bombs are tested by the American military— and challenges the notion of transhistorical trauma which posits that “the land represents the present-day victim status of peoples...

... trau- matic event—here, the displacement and health problems of the people of the Marshall Islands after nuclear bombs are tested by the American military— and challenges the notion of transhistorical trauma which posits that “the land represents the present-day victim status of peoples...

... of the people of the Marshall Islands after nuclear bombs are tested by the American military— and challenges the notion of transhistorical trauma which posits that “the land represents the present-day victim status of peoples associated with that land- scape” (94). Each individual, Balaev argues...

... trau- matic event—here, the displacement and health problems of the people of the Marshall Islands after nuclear bombs are tested by the American military— and challenges the notion of transhistorical trauma which posits that “the land represents the present-day victim status of peoples...

... of the people of the Marshall Islands after nuclear bombs are tested by the American military— and challenges the notion of transhistorical trauma which posits that “the land represents the present-day victim status of peoples associated with that land- scape” (94). Each individual, Balaev argues...