Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.
Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.
Pramod K. Nayar, recipient of the Visitor's Award for Best Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from the President of India, is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. He is the author of books in literary-cultural studies, with primary interests in English colonial writings, posthumanism and, in the last decade, human rights and literature. His newest books include Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2020), Ecoprecarity (2019), Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire (2020) and Essays in Celebrity Culture (2021). Nayar holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.
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Preface Chapter 1: Introduction - Nuclear Cultures Chapter 2: The Nuclear Subject Chapter 3: The A-List: Atomic Scientists and Bombmakers Chapter 4: Irradiated Aesthetics: The Atomic Sublime Chapter 5: Planetary Precarity and Anti-nuclear Cosmopolitanism
