Narrating Nuclear Disaster

<b>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.</b><br/><br/>In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, <i>Narrating Nuclear Disasters</i> 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.