The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature

ISBN: 0879725303

Author: Anisfield, Nancy

Condition: New

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, Kopits End of the World, OBriens The Nuclear Age, and Vonneguts cataclysmic novels.