Nuclear Cultures - Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction - Nuclear Cultures
Chapter 2: The Nuclear Subject
Chapter 3: The A-List: Atomic Scientists and Bombmakers
Chapter 4: Irradiated Aesthetics: The Atomic Sublime
Chapter 5: Planetary Precarity and Anti-nuclear Cosmopolitanism

About the author

Pramod K. Nayar, recipient of the Visitor’s Award for Best Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from the President of India, is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. He is the author of books in literary-cultural studies, with primary interests in English colonial writings, posthumanism and, in the last decade, human rights and literature. His newest books include Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2020), Ecoprecarity (2019), Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire (2020) and Essays in Celebrity Culture (2021). Nayar holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.

Summary

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.

Product details

• Authors: Pramod K. Nayar, Nayar Pramod K.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032183848
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3218384-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; FICTION / General, Media Studies, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, military history, Films, cinema, The environment, Politics & government, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science