Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

by Alan Nadel

Book Overview

Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, gender roles, nuclear energy, and artistic expression...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822316994
• ISBN13: 9780822316992
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"