Driving out of the wreck : underground testing in the Cold-War novel
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2000
Authors
Hollott, Piers Michael
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This thesis applies common approaches from Nuclear Criticism to three novels, Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, Nicole Brossard 's Mauve Desert, and William S Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night. It explores the themes of testing and experimentation, focusing on the nuclear test itself. Nuclear war literature can be divided into two categories those that deal with the effects of the war, and those that explore the preparation for it. This thesis is a consideration of the latter category.
This thesis is influenced by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, specifically their collaborat1ons, Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schzophrenza and A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia. These collaborations develop many concepts that can be applied to the Cold-War novel including the body without organs, the diagram and the desring machine. I have added a concept of my own, the tryptych, aligned with Deleuze and Guattari's diagram or rhizome fold.