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Author Williams, Paul, 1979-

Title Race, ethnicity and nuclear war : representations of nuclear weapons and post-apocalyptic worlds / Paul Williams.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages).
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Series Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 40
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 40.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
Summary Ranging across novels and poetry, critical theory and film comics and speeches, this title explores how writers, thinkers and filmmakers have unanswered the question: are nuclear weapons 'white'?
Contents Race, war and apocalypse before 1945 -- Inverted frontiers -- Soft places and Mad Max beyond Thunderdome -- Fear of a black planet -- White rain and the black Atlantic -- Race and the Manhattan Project -- 'The Hindu bomb' : nuclear nationalism in The last jet-engine laugh -- Third world wars and third-world wars.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Nuclear warfare in literature.
Nuclear warfare in literature.
Nuclear warfare in motion pictures.
Nuclear warfare in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781846317088 1846317088
ISBN 184631979X (electronic book)
9781846319792 (electronic book)
9781846317088 (hardback)
1846317088 (hardback)