TY - BOOK ID - 69658307 TI - Infrastructures of apocalypse : American literature and the nuclear complex PY - 2020 SN - 9781517908744 9781517908737 1517908744 1517908736 PB - Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear warfare in literature. KW - American literature KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - End of the world in literature. KW - Minorities in literature. KW - Nuclear warfare and literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Minority authors KW - Nuclear warfare in literature KW - End of the world in literature KW - Minorities in literature KW - Nuclear warfare and literature KW - Atomic warfare and literature KW - Literature and nuclear warfare KW - Literature KW - Minorities as a theme in literature KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - History and criticism KW - Minority authors&delete& UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69658307 AB - Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has typically been discussed in a limited, top-down fashion that clusters around powerful men. In Infrastructures of Apocalypse, Jessica Hurley turns this conventional wisdom on its head, offering a new approach that focuses on neglected authors and Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American perspectives.Exchanging the usual white, male "nuclear canon" for authors that include James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ruth Ozeki, Infrastructures of Apocalypse delivers a fresh literary history of post-1945 America that focuses on apocalypse from below. Here Hurley critiques the racialized urban spaces of civil defense and reads nuclear waste as a colonial weapon. Uniting these diverse lines of inquiry is Hurley's belief that apocalyptic thinking is not the opposite of engagement but rather a productive way of imagining radically new forms of engagement.Infrastructures of Apocalypse offers futurelessness as a place from which we can construct a livable world. It fills a blind spot in scholarship on American literature of the nuclear age, while also offering provocative, surprising new readings of such well-known works as Atlas Shrugged, Infinite Jest, and Angels in America. Infrastructures of Apocalypse is a revelation for readers interested in nuclear issues, decolonial literature, speculative fiction, and American studies. ER -