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After the End - David L. Pike

After the End

Cold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Twenty-First Century

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Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9539-5 (ISBN)
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Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality and apocalypse. -- .
After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. After the End reminds us not only that most of the world’s peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well. -- .

David L. Pike is a Professor of Literature at American University -- .

Introduction: After the imminent apocalypse: the bunker fantasy since the Cold War
1 The fantasy of 1980s survivalism since the Reagan years
2 Survivance in fictions of survivalism since the Reagan years
3 The hedgehog, the tortoise, and the world: Switzerland, Albania, and the global bunker fantasy
4 Life in the ontological bunker: Cold War continuance, appropriation, and repurposing from America to Taiwan
5 Writing from the epistemological bunker: fictions of postnuclear apocalypse
6 Wall and tunnel: security, containment ,and subversion
Conclusion: Biosecurity, siloing, and the legacies of a shelter society -- .

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 16 colour illustrations, 84 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-5261-9539-9 / 1526195399
ISBN-13 978-1-5261-9539-5 / 9781526195395
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