Gabriele Schwab is distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine. She holds appointments in comparative literature, anthropology, English, and European languages and studies. Her books in English include Subjects without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction; The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language; Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma; and Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Subjectivity, Culture.

Contents

Preface: Of Three-Eyed Fish and Other Ghostings

Introduction: Why Nuclear Necropolitics Today?

Part I. Nuclear Subjectivities

1. No Apocalypse, Not Now: Derrida and the Nuclear Unconscious

2. Nuclear Colonialism

3. Critical Nuclear Race Theory

4. The Gender of Nuclear Subjectivities

Interlude: Children of the Nuclear Age

With Simon J. Ortiz

Part II. Haunting from the Future

5. The Afterlife of Nuclear Catastrophes

6. Hiroshima’s Ghostly Shadows

7. Postnuclear Madness and Nuclear Crypts

8. Transspecies Selves: Intimacies, Extimacies, Animacies

Coda: Postnuclear Ecologies: Language, Body, and Affect in Beckett’s Happy Days

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index