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J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, the single most recognizable face of the atomic bomb, was and still is a conflicted, controversial figure. The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer examines how he has been represented over the past seven decades in biographies, histories, fiction, comics, photographs, film, TV, documentaries, theatre, and museums.

Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Postmodern/Postwar - and After aims to be a field-defining book - a sourcebook for the new and emerging critical terrain - that explores the postmodern/postwar period and what comes after.