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No accident, comrade chance and design in Cold War American narratives

Title
No accident, comrade [electronic resource] : chance and design in Cold War American narratives / Steven Belletto.
Author
Belletto, Steven.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 206 p.) : ill., map.
Uniform Title
No accident, comrade (Online)
Alternative Title
No accident, comrade (Online)
Subject
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Cold War in literature
  • Chance in literature
  • Political fiction, American > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
Chance, narrative, and the logic of the Cold War -- Aesthetic responses to political fictions : Pynchon and the violence of narrative chance -- The Zemblan who came in from the cold : Nabokov's Cold War -- Accidents going somewhere to happen : African-American self-definition at mid-century -- The game theory narrative and the myth of the national security state -- Their country, our culture : the persistence of the Cold War -- Coda : Cold War meaning.
LCCN
2011010928
OCLC
ssj0000592172
Author
Belletto, Steven.
Title
No accident, comrade [electronic resource] : chance and design in Cold War American narratives / Steven Belletto.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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