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Allegories of Hiroshima: Toward a Rhetoric of Nuclear Modernism
The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World (2013)
  • Mark Pedretti, Providence College
Abstract
This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in contemporary scholarship (and society at-large).

Scholars who were active in earlier expressions of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent scholars likewise striving to negotiate the field moving forward. This volume revolves around these dialogic moments of agreement and departure; refusing the silence of complacency, the authors renew this conversation while taking it in exciting new directions. As political paradigms shift and awareness of nuclear issues manifests in alternative forms, the collected essays establish groundwork for future generations caught in a perpetual struggle with legacies of the nuclear.
Publication Date
2013
Editor
Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, Jack Taylor
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN
9781443844796
Citation Information
Mark Pedretti. "Allegories of Hiroshima: Toward a Rhetoric of Nuclear Modernism" Newcastle upon TyneThe Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World (2013) p. XVII - 279
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mark-pedretti/3/