Late Cold War Literature and Culture The Nuclear 1980s 1st Edition by Daniel Cordle ISBN 113751308X 97871137513083

1. Protect–Protest: Introducing the Nuclear 1980s

• The Nuclear 1980s
• Protect–Protest
• Notes

2. The Most Explosive Love Story Ever: Transatlantic Nuclear Discourse

• Reaganomics and Thatcherism: The 1980s Context
• The Nuclear Transatlantic
• Notes

3. The Politics of Vulnerability: Protest and Nuclear Literature

• Literary Depictions of Nuclear Protest and Protesters
• Protesters in Children’s and Young Adult Nuclear Literature
• The Fragile Human Subject
• Conclusion: The Literature of Hope
• Notes

4. Post-Containment Culture: Gender, Family, and Society in the Late Cold War

• Early Cold War Societies: Containment Culture and Nuclearity
• Protection Discourse: Conservatism, the Family, and Civil Defence
• Protest Discourse: Gender, Power, and Alternative Models of Society
• Nuclear Literature in the Gender Debates of the 1980s
• Nuclear Families: Prisoner’s Dilemma and The Burning Book
• Beyond the Family: Children of the Dust, Always Coming Home, The Gate to Women’s Country, and Dream
• Notes

5. Dust, Winter, and Refuge: Environmentalism and Nuclear Literature

• Fear in a Handful of Dust: Radioactive Fallout
• Seasonal Adjustments: Nuclear Winters and Silent Springs
• Refuges
• Notes

6. From the Ashes: Society and Economy in Nuclear Literature

• Contemporary Society, Nuclear War, and Neoliberalism
• Post-Nuclear Societies
• Notes

7. Burning Books: Textual Preoccupations of Nuclear and Postmodern Culture

• Libraries in Nuclear Fiction
• The Human and the Book: M.K. Wren, A Gift Upon the Shore
• Postmodern Nuclear Literature
• The Postmodern Apocalyptic
• Metafiction
• The Virtual and the Real
• Deferral of Closure
• Notes

8. Conclusion: Between the Wars

• Notes

Appendix: Timeline

• Before 1980

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1980

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1981

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1982

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1983

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1984

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1985

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1986

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1987

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1988

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1989

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts

• 1990 and Afterwards

  • British Literature
  • US Literature
  • Cold War and Other Contexts