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Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction

Barnes, Thomas J.The University of Western Ontario2011

… Postwar American Culture and Fiction argues that garbage of the post-World War II period can be read as an index of the Cold War cultural landscape and its structure of feeling. This dissertation treats these remainders as archival materials, documents with a kind of textuality, and suggests that …

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