When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it
precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Cold
War periods. States of suspense is about the representation of this
nuclear age in United States literature from 1945-2005. The
profound psychological and cultural impact of living in
anticipation of the Bomb is apparent not only in end-of-the-world
fantasies, but also in mainstream and postmodern literature. This
book traces the ways in which key motifs - the fragility of
reality; the fear of closure; the inadequacies of language to
represent the world - move between nuclear and postmodern cultures
of the Cold War era. Taking three symbolically threatened
environments - the home, the city, the planet - the book explores
their recasting as 'nuclear places' in literature, and shows how
these nuclear concerns resonate with those of other cultures.
States of suspense will be of interest to students and scholars of
American literature, and postmodern and technological culture. It
will also be interest to those more generally intrigued by the
cultural fallout of the nuclear age. -- .
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