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Will the Real Atomic Subaltern Please Stand Up? Critiquing Nuclear Historiography through Nucliteracy
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On May 11, 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Indian prime minister and leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), proudly proclaimed that under the aegis of Operation Shakti...Abstract:
On May 11, 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Indian prime minister and leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), proudly proclaimed that under the aegis of Operation Shakti ...read more
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Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age. By Alan Nadel. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. xvi, 332 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-1701-X. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-1699-4.)
TL;DR: Nadel as discussed by the authors provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, gender roles, nuclear energy and artistic expression.
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Apocalypse management: Eisenhower and the discourse of national insecurity
TL;DR: Chernus, et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss the cultural turn as a wholly unproductive and baleful influence on the history of the 20th century, and present a survey of the influence of cultural turn on history.
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The Politics of Postmodernism
TL;DR: In this article, the postmodernist representation is de-naturalized the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history, Re-presenting the past: 'total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text.
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Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the benefits of reading tropics of discourse essays in cultural criticism and the advantages of collective books that give many advantages for the other peoples with those meaningful benefits.
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Literacies of Power : What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know
TL;DR: Literacies of Power: What Americans are Not Allowed to Know, by Donaldo Macedo as discussed by the authors is an analysis of what he characterizes as the deceitful literacies of the powerful and their "pedagogy of big lies".