The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature

ISBN-13: 9780879725303 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 201 str.

Nancy Anisfield; Nancy Anisfield

Opis

These essays assess the nature of nuclear war literature from a variety of perspectives. Scholars, activists, novelists, poets, and teachers challenge nuclear ideologies and traditional readings of apocalyptic texts. Included: Holocaust literature of the 1950s, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, poetry and nuclear war, Riddley Walker, Fiskadoro, haiku and Hiroshima, Kopit s End of the World, O Brien s The Nuclear Age, and Vonnegut s cataclysmic novels."