Michael J. Blouin, Morgan Shipley, and Jack Taylor have edited a great collection of essays on nuclear criticism, The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World (this links to the publisher page). I have an essay in the collection, “Apocalypse Networks: Representing the Nuclear Archive,” that any reader of this blog would probably find quite interesting. And of course there are a number of other interesting essays by accomplished scholars and nuclear critics. You can preview the table of contents, the preface, and the introduction here. And the book is now readily available for order from Amazon and of course other places. (Probably the quickest way to get it would be going directly to CSP’s site.)
I’ve included the Table of Contents below:
Introduction: The Silence of Fallout, Michael J. Blouin, Morgan Shipley, and Jack Taylor
Chapter One: “What Works”: Instrumentalism, Ideology, and Nostalgia in a Post-Cold War Culture, Jeff Smith
Chapter Two: Specters of Totality: The Afterlife of the Nuclear Age, Aaron Rosenberg
Chapter Three: Queer Temporalities of the Nuclear Condition, Paul K. Saint-Amour
Chapter Four: Apocalypse Networks: Representing the Nuclear Archive, Bradley J. Fest
Chapter Five: Cut to Black: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-September 11th America, Joseph Dewey
Chapter Six: The Pixilated Apocalypse: Video Games and Nuclear Fears, 1980-2012, William Knoblauch
Chapter Seven: Depictions of Destruction: Post-Cold War Literary Representations of Storytelling and Survival in the Nuclear Era, Julie Williams
Chapter Eight: Allegories of Hiroshima: Toward a Rhetoric of Nuclear Modernism, Mark Pedretti
Chapter Nine: War as Peace: Afterlives of Nuclear War in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Jessica Hurley
Chapter Ten: The Hunger Games: Darwinism and Nuclear Apocalypse Narrative in the Post-9/11 World, Patrick B. Sharp
Chapter Eleven: Legacy of Waste: Nuclear Culture After the Cold War, Daniel Cordle
Chapter Twelve: In a dark wud: Metaphors, Narratives, and Nuclear Weapons, John Canaday
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