Narrating Nuclear Disaster
Literary Form After Chornobyl and Fukushima
1st Edition
Published on 16. April 2026
224 pages
978-1-350-52646-4 (ISBN)
Description
Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters.
In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring the uncertainty arising from events whose short- and long-term effects remain hard to oversee. By reading a wide corpus of post-Chornobyl and post-Fukushima literature from canonical texts by Christa Wolf, Julian Barnes and Ruth Ozeki to genre fiction such as thrillers and travelogues, the book offers a new way of thinking about nuclear narratives and nuclear culture more broadly. In doing so, it positions nuclear disaster narratives within a wider context of "Anthropocene literature", forging new connections between nuclear culture and contemporary ecocriticism.
In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring the uncertainty arising from events whose short- and long-term effects remain hard to oversee. By reading a wide corpus of post-Chornobyl and post-Fukushima literature from canonical texts by Christa Wolf, Julian Barnes and Ruth Ozeki to genre fiction such as thrillers and travelogues, the book offers a new way of thinking about nuclear narratives and nuclear culture more broadly. In doing so, it positions nuclear disaster narratives within a wider context of "Anthropocene literature", forging new connections between nuclear culture and contemporary ecocriticism.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-52646-4 (9781350526464)
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05/2026
Bloomsbury Academic
€105.50
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Person
Hannah Klaubert is a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University, Sweden.
Content
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Theorizing Nuclear Disaster Narratives
2. Nuclear Risk Narratives
3. Nuclear Noir Narratives
4. Nuclear Pastoral Narratives
5. Nuclear Fallout Narratives
Conclusion
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Theorizing Nuclear Disaster Narratives
2. Nuclear Risk Narratives
3. Nuclear Noir Narratives
4. Nuclear Pastoral Narratives
5. Nuclear Fallout Narratives
Conclusion
References
Index
