The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature

Book Overview

These essays assess the nature of nuclear war literature from a variety of perspectives. Scholars, activists, novelists, poets, and teachers challenge nuclear ideologies and traditional readings of apocalyptic texts. Included: Holocaust literature of the 1950s, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, poetry and nuclear war, Riddley Walker, Fiskadoro, haiku and Hiroshima, Kopit's End of the World, O'Brien's The Nuclear Age, and Vonnegut's cataclysmic novels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879725303
• ISBN13: 9780879725303
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"