Title: States of suspense
Subtitle: the nuclear age, postmodernism and United States fiction and prose
Description: "When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it not only signalled the final phase of the Second World War, it also precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. States of Suspense is about the representation of this nuclear age in United States literature from 1945-2005. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of American literature, and postmodern and technological culture. It will also be of interest to those more generally intrigued by the cultural fallout of the nuclear age."--Jacket.
Subjects: History and criticism, American literature, Atomic bomb in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), Nuclear warfare in literature, Nuclear warfare and literature, Nuclear warfare, social aspects, Nuclear warfare, psychological aspects, War in literature, Postmodernism (literature), Cold War in literature
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century