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Radioactive ghosts / Gabriele Schwab.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schwab, Gabriele, author.
Series:
Posthumanities ; 61.
Posthumanities ; 61
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Nuclear warfare--Philosophy.
Nuclear warfare.
Nuclear accidents--Psychological aspects.
Nuclear accidents.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 online resource)
Place of Publication:
London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Summary:
"A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Preface : Of three-eyed fish and other ghostings
Introduction : Why nuclear necropolitics today?
Part 1. Nuclear subjectivities
No apocalypse, not now : Derrida and the nuclear unconscious
Nuclear colonialism
Critical nuclear race theory
The gender of nuclear subjectivities
Interlude : Children of the nuclear age, with Simon J. Ortiz
Part 2. Haunting from the future
The afterlife of nuclear catastrophes
Hiroshima's ghostly shadows
Postnuclear madness and nuclear crypts
Transspecies selves : intimacies, extimacies, animacies
Coda: Postnuclear ecologies : language, body, and affect in Beckett's Happy Days.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-5179-0783-7
OCLC:
1159660701

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