Narrating Nuclear Disaster

Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring the uncertainty arising from events whose short- and long-term effects remain hard to oversee. By reading a wide corpus of post-Chornobyl and post-Fukushima literature from canonical texts by Christa Wolf, Julian Barnes and Ruth Ozeki to genre fiction such as thrillers and travelogues, the book offers a new way of thinking about nuclear narratives and nuclear culture more broadly. In doing so, it positions nuclear disaster narratives within a wider context of "Anthropocene literature", forging new connections between nuclear culture and contemporary ecocriticism.

About the author

Hannah Klaubert is a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University, Sweden.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Klaubert
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.05.2026
• EAN: 9781350526457
• ISBN: 978-1-350-52645-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, FICTION / World Literature / England / 21st Century, Literary studies: from c 2000, FICTION / World Literature / Spain / 20th Century