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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 145–169.
Published: 01 June 2016
... as a Boeing technical writer, and Century 21 goes unmentioned in work on the novel’s allusions by Steven Weisenburger and others. Pynchon responds throughout Gravity’s Rainbow to Century 21, particularly its Cold War views of space-age futurism and nuclear weapons. I draw new connections between the...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 2016
... insight to the massive paradigm shift that occurs when war moves its theater from the ground to the air, Saint-Amour delinks nuclear criticism from the nuclear age. Doing so allows Saint-Amour to eloquently argue ( pace Benjamin) for brushing futurity against the grain, setting in motion a vibrant...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 387–412.
Published: 01 December 2018
... dismissed as mere surface. Yet Merrill, the article contends, indulges in what he calls the Ouija’s “backstage gossip” both to establish a queer relationship to poetic tradition and to confront the pervasive menace of the Cold War discourse of the Lavender Scare, which haunts the trilogy’s 1950s origins...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 540–545.
Published: 01 September 2012
... threat of total nuclear war” (4). I will resist the temptation to
describe Grausam’s claims as explosive, but they are ambitious; this is
commendable, but it also means that parts of the argument are inevitably
more persuasive than others.
As Grausam is well aware, considerations of the...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 377–384.
Published: 01 June 2013
... than an ongoing struggle. And while it is fair
to doubt that many people long for the time of imminent nuclear threats,
something interesting has happened with the Cold War: it has become an
academic topic that it is possible to discuss without primary reference to
the ideological or political...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 387–395.
Published: 01 December 2000
... could only be more
of the same. Nothing more could be revealed. All subsequent, post-
apocalyptic destruction would be absolutely without meaning, mere repeti
tion.
We can point to four principle areas of postwar apocalyptic representa
tion. The first is nuclear war, the second is the...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 434–452.
Published: 01 December 2000
... fiction.
Science-fiction representations of the atomic bomb developed out of
the future-war-story genre that became popular in the late nineteenth cen
tury. The popularity of future-war stories can be traced to May 1871, when
an English military officer published a short story entitled “The...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 120–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
... their reconsideration. Most prominent is the postwar as a historical period (effectively 1945–89), defined by the political aesthetics of the Cold War, or even a protracted “interwar” (167), as proposed by contributor Paul K. Saint-Amour, with the nuclear detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 264–271.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Brooke Horvath For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front , by Kingsbury Celia Malone , University of Nebraska Press , 2010 . 309 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Brooke Horvath
Learning to Hate the Hun
For Home and Country: World War I...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 572–596.
Published: 01 December 2009
... more sweeping critique than
it is typically given credit for; many critics “provincialize” its context—
nuclear proliferation—rather than see its immediate concerns as part of
a larger ideological project. To be fair, those same critics can hardly be
blamed for declining to read the novel...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2000
... apocalyptic visions that have proliferated wildly in the last
I200 years, the world has been destroyed by nuclear wars, alien invasions,
climatic changes, social upheavals, meteor strikes, and technological shut
downs.
These baroque scenarios are shaped by the eroticism of disaster. The
apocalyptic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
... issues as the Korean War, nuclear disarmament, communism, and the Marshall Plan before he emigrated to Nkrumah’s Ghana in 1961 as a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. Few scholars have analyzed this period in depth, partly because there is such intense investment in his status as a humanist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 196–231.
Published: 01 June 2013
... initially acknowledges the large-scale catastrophe in the near
distance, it sinks comfortably into the well-mapped terrain of the post-
war suburban novel as it recounts the travails of its amiable but detached
protagonist. By novel’s end, Jerry himself suffers devastating personal loss
while flying...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 June 2010
... dread of a potential tide of “local catastrophic
occurrences.” Writing as the Cold War began a phase of détente and the
First and Second Worlds entered long periods of economic retrenchment,
Lessing in this passage looks beyond the pressing nuclear issue in order
to attend to a wider field of...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 463–470.
Published: 01 December 2016
... section has some fascinating tidbits, like Jameson’s mediating a spat between Graham Greene and Arthur Koestler, her brief work with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, her deepening friendship with Miłosz, and the pathos of all her friends and family (including her son) dying around her as she becomes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 328–340.
Published: 01 December 2011
...
Andreas Killen abundantly documents: the Yom Kippur War and the start
of the Arab oil embargo, the Paris Peace Accords and the repatriation of
the American prisoners of war, the beginning of the end of the Nixon
presidency as details of the Watergate break-in emerged, the Supreme
Court’s Roe...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 248–272.
Published: 01 September 2007
... “pressing
the wrong button” (33), he underscores the sense o f civic disempower-
m ent and insecurity associated w ith the early Cold War period, in which
nuclear apocalypse could just as plausibly come about from a mistake
made by one’s own government as an enemy attack.6 These...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 507–512.
Published: 01 December 2017
... took to the stage to address the vast crowd and drew a historical parallel to exhort her listeners toward solidarity and political resistance: “We cannot fall into despair. As the poet W. H. Auden once wrote on the eve of World War II: ‘We must love one another or die.’” The marchers cheered, and the...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Harbor on D ecem ber 7, 1991, the fif
tieth anniversary o f the Japanese attack, President George Bush put the
end o f the Cold War into what he saw as its proper context: “N ow we
stand triumphant,” he said, “for a third time this century, this time in the
wake o f the Cold War. As in...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 596–618.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and the Pillar, Giovanni’s Room, and the Straight-Acting Gay Man
Certainly Jim lives an adult life that contests Cold War notions of
conformity, marriage, and the nuclear family, and in this sense, he is
outside the US mainstream. But I question Corber’s assertion that “Jim
does not...