{"product_id":"infrastructures-of-apocalypse-jessica-hurley-9781517908744","title":"Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has typically been discussed in a limited, top-down fashion that clusters around powerful men. In \u003ci\u003eInfrastructures of Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, Jessica Hurley turns this conventional wisdom on its head, offering a new approach that focuses on neglected authors and Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American perspectives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exchanging the usual white, male \"nuclear canon\" for authors that include James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ruth Ozeki, \u003ci\u003eInfrastructures of Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a fresh literary history of post-1945 America that focuses on apocalypse from below. Here Hurley critiques the racialized urban spaces of civil defense and reads nuclear waste as a colonial weapon. Uniting these diverse lines of inquiry is Hurley's belief that apocalyptic thinking is not the opposite of engagement but rather a productive way of imagining radically new forms of engagement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInfrastructures of Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e offers futurelessness as a place from which we can construct a livable world. It fills a blind spot in scholarship on American literature of the nuclear age, while also offering provocative, surprising new readings of such well-known works as \u003ci\u003eAtlas Shrugged\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Infinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAngels in America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eInfrastructures of Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation for readers interested in nuclear issues, decolonial literature, speculative fiction, and American studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Hurley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517908744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517908744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Jessica Hurley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001603604735,"sku":"9781517908744","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b112daa3-9e23-45e3-a6b4-1a427a678de5.jpg?v=1751601568","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/infrastructures-of-apocalypse-jessica-hurley-9781517908744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}