No accident, comrade
Subtitle: chance and design in Cold War American narratives
By: Steven Belletto
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780199826889
Subjects: American Political fiction; American fiction; History and criticism; Cold War in literature; Chance in literature
Description: Drawing on novels by Nabokov, Wright, Powers, DeLillo, Didion and others, 'No Accident, Comrade' examines the shaping influence of the Cold War's obsession with chance on post-World War II fictional form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chance, narrative, and the logic of the Cold War; title: Aesthetic responses to political fictions : Pynchon and the violence of narrative chance; title: The Zemblan who came in from the cold : Nabokov's Cold War; title: Accidents going somewhere to happen : African-American self-definition at mid-century; title: The game theory narrative and the myth of the national security state; title: Their country, our culture : the persistence of the Cold War; title: Coda : Cold War meaning.