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

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David L. Pike

After the End

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

David L. Pike

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Manchester University Press
09 April 2024

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; The Cold War; Cultural studies

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.

By: David L. Pike
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 859g
ISBN: 9781526174048
ISBN 10: 1526174049
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for After the End: Cold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Twenty-First Century

'Pike examines the legacy of the Cold War through what he calls “the bunker fantasy,” an ambivalent desire containing not only the promise of safety and shelter but also the prospect of fear, isolation, and confinement.' CHOICE -- .