Steven Belletto

No Accident, Comrade

Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and others--contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence and operation of chance in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780199354351
• ISBN-10: 0199354359
• Artikelnr.: 39147639

Autorenporträt

Steven Belletto is assistant professor of English and chair of the American Studies program at Lafayette College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter One: Chance, Narrative, and the Logic of the Cold War
* Chapter Two: Aesthetic Responses to Political Fictions: Pynchon and
the
* Violence of Narrative Chance
* Chapter Three: The Zemblan Who Came in from the Cold: Nabokov's Cold
War
* Chapter Four: Accidents Going Somewhere to Happen: African-American
* Self-Definition at Mid-Century
* Chapter Five: The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the
* National Security State
* Chapter Six: Their Country, Our Culture: The Persistence of the Cold
War
* Coda: Cold War Meaning
* Bibliography
* Index