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Autore: |
Foertsch Jacqueline <1964->
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Titolo: |
Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / / Jacqueline Foertsch
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Pubblicazione: | Nashville : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323.1196/073 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Reckoning day ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8265-1928-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463289003321 |
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