The Cloud That Contained the Lightning - Couverture souple

Lowen, Cynthia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820345644 ISBN 13 : 9780820345642

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2013

Synopsis

Using the character of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” as a jumpingoff point, The Cloud That Contained the Lightning explores the kinds of ethical choices we face as individuals and as a society with respect to the innovations and inventions we pursue. How are our fears, obsessions, prejudices, and cultures manifested in the ways we apply new technologies, such as the splitting of the atom? What were the attitudes that resulted in such a destructive invention? What prompted it to be used on a nation suspected to already be defeated? By weaving together the voices of Oppenheimer, his wife and brother, hibakusha (Japanese for “explosion-affected people”), and the mythological figures of Cronos and his children, Lowen creates a dialogue out of a vacuum of communication and imagines the kind of exchanges that might have led to a different outcome than the tragedies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And in an exploration of our tendency for selective amnesia, this collection asks a critical question: How quickly will the forgotten lessons of the past allow us to repeat the tragic chapters of our history?

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À propos de l'auteur

CYNTHIA LOWEN has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She was selected for inclusion in Best New Poets 2008 and is a recipient of the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize and a winner of the "Discovery"/ Boston Review Poetry Contest. She served as a screenwriter and producer of the 2011 documentary Bully.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820345644
• ISBN 13: 9780820345642
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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