Infrastructures of apocalypse : American literature and the nuclear complex /

"A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hurley, Jessica (Professor of literature) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Nuclear warfare in literature. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism. Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism. End of the world in literature. Minorities in literature. Nuclear warfare and literature. American literature. American literature > Minority authors. Apocalyptic literature. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: End Times
White Sovereignty and the Nuclear State
Civil Defense and Black Apocalypse
Star Wars, AIDS, and Queer Endings
Nuclear Waste, Native America, Narrative Form
Coda: Nuclear Entanglements.