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The Nightmare Considered
Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature
Edited by Nancy AnisfieldPopular Press
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.
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1991
LC: 91-072619 PN
210 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-87972-529-7
Cloth $35.95 t
ISBN 978-0-87972-530-3
Paper $16.95 t
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