Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds / Paul Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ranging across novels and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have answered the following question: are nuclear weapons †̃white'? Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War listens to voices from around the Anglophone world and the debates followed do not only take place on the soil of the nuclear powers. Filmmakers and writers from the Caribbean, Australia, and India take up positions shaped by their specific place in the decolonizing world and their particular experience of nuclear weapons. The texts considered in Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War encompass the many guises of representations of nuclear weapons. New thoughts are offered on the major texts that SF scholars often return to, such as Philip Wylie's Tomorrow! and Pat Frank's Alas Babylon, and a host of little known and under-researched texts are scrutinized too.

Contents:

1 Race, War and Apocalypse before 1945 25

2 Inverted Frontiers 49

3 Soft Places and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 85

4 Fear of a Black Planet 105

5 White Rain and the Black Atlantic 147

6 Race and the Manhattan Project 180

7 'The Hindu Bomb': Nuclear Nationalism in The Last Jet-Engine Laugh 202

8 Third World Wars and Third-World Wars 224.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101275

ISBN:

9781846317088