Nuclear Cultures

Pramod K. Nayar, recipient of the Visitor’s Award for Best Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from the President of India, is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. He is the author of books in literary-cultural studies, with primary interests in English colonial writings, posthumanism and, in the last decade, human rights and literature. His newest books include Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2020), Ecoprecarity (2019), Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire (2020) and Essays in Celebrity Culture (2021). Nayar holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction - Nuclear Cultures

Chapter 2: The Nuclear Subject

Chapter 3: The A-List: Atomic Scientists and Bombmakers

Chapter 4: Irradiated Aesthetics: The Atomic Sublime

Chapter 5: Planetary Precarity and Anti-nuclear Cosmopolitanism