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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788209203321

Autore

Foertsch Jacqueline <1964->

Titolo

Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / / Jacqueline Foertsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nashville : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8265-0286-5

0-8265-1928-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

Atomic bomb - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Antinuclear movement - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African American political activists

African American intellectuals

Atomic bomb in literature

Race relations in literature

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Extraordinarily Convenient Neighbors" : Servant-Savior-Savants in White-Authored Post-Nuclear Novels -- "Tomorrow's Children" : Interracial Conflict and Resolution in Atomic-Era Science Fiction and Afro-Futurism -- Sidebar : Covering the Bomb in the African American Press -- Against the "Starless Midnight of Racism and War" : African American Intellectuals and the Anti-Nuclear Agenda -- Last Man Standing : Sex and Survival in the Interracial Apocalyptic -- Conclusion: "Don't Drop It, Stop It, Bebop It" : Some Final Notes on Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America.

Sommario/riassunto

"Tells the story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. Examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of



figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement of black characters in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction"--Provided by publisher.