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Author Williams, Paul, 1979-

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

Imprint Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
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'?
Note Print version record.
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
Language English.
Subject Nuclear warfare in literature.
Nuclear warfare in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Guerre nucléaire dans la littérature.
Guerre nucléaire au cinéma.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Ethnicité au cinéma.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Ethnicity in literature
Ethnicity in motion pictures
Nuclear warfare in literature
Nuclear warfare in motion pictures
Indexed Term Literature.
Other Form: Print version: 9781846317088 1846317088
ISBN 184631979X (electronic bk.)
9781846319792 (electronic bk.)
9781846317088 (hbk.)
1846317088 (hbk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000066532530
AU@ 000069200882
CHNEW 001035162
CHVBK 556236238
GBVCP 896611507
NLGGC 382626273

 
    
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