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Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War - Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds (Hardcover, New)
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Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War - Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds (Hardcover, New)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 40
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Ranging across
novels and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches,
Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons
and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds explores how writers, thinkers, and
filmmakers have answered the following question: are nuclear
weapons 'white'? Many texts respond in the affirmative, and arraign
nuclear weapons for defending a racial order that privileges
whiteness. They are seen as a reminder that the power enjoyed by
the white western world imperils the whole of the Earth.
Furthermore, the struggle to survive during and after a speculated
nuclear attack is often cast as a contest between races and ethnic
groups. Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War listens to voices from
around the Anglophone world and the debates followed do not only
take place on the soil of the nuclear powers. Filmmakers and
writers from the Caribbean, Australia, and India take up positions
shaped by their specific place in the decolonizing world and their
particular experience of nuclear weapons. The texts considered in
Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War encompass the many guises of
representations of nuclear weapons: the Manhattan Project that
developed the first atomic weapons, the destruction of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, nuclear tests taking place around the world, and the
anxiety surrounding the superpowers' devastating arsenals. Of
particular interest to SF scholars are the extensive analyses of
films, novels, and short stories depicting nuclear war and its
aftermath. New thoughts are offered on the major texts that SF
scholars often return to, such as Philip Wylie's Tomorrow! and Pat
Frank's Alas Babylon, and a host of little known and
under-researched texts are scrutinized too.
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