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      Global Cold War Literature book

      Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives

      Global Cold War Literature

      DOI link for Global Cold War Literature

      Global Cold War Literature book

      Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives
      Edited ByAndrew Hammond
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 16 December 2011
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203147726
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780203147726
      Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Hammond, A. (Ed.). (2011). Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203147726

      ABSTRACT

      In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century. Global Cold War Literatures offers a unique look at the multiple ways in which writers from Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America addressed the military conflicts, revolutions, propaganda wars and ideological debates of the era.

      While including essays on western European and North American literature, the volume views First World writing, not as central to the period, but as part of an international discussion of Cold War realities in which the most interesting contributions often came from marginal or subordinate cultures. To this end, there is an emphasis on the literatures of the Second and Third Worlds, including essays on Latin American poetry, Soviet travel writing, Chinese autobiography, African theatre, North Korean literature, Cuban and eastern European fiction, and Middle Eastern fiction and poetry.

      With the post-Cold War era still in a condition of emergence, it is essential that we look back to the 1945-89 period to understand the political and cultural forces that shaped the modern world. The volume’s analysis of those forces and its focus on many of the ‘hot spots’ – Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea – that define the contemporary ‘war on terror’, make this an essential resources for those working in Postcolonial, American and English Literatures, as well as in History, Comparative Literature, European Studies and Cultural Studies. Global Cold War Literatures is a suitable companion volume to Hammond's Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict, also available from Routledge.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |16 pages

      On the Frontlines of Writing: Introducing the Literary Cold War

      ByANDREW HAMMOND

      chapter 1|13 pages

      Anti-Communism on the American Stage

      ByBRENDA MURPHY

      chapter 2|13 pages

      Factography and Cold War Ideology in the Cuban Detective Novel

      ByIGNACIO LÓPEZ-CALVO

      chapter 3|15 pages

      Cross-Border Representation in South and North Korean Literatures of the Cold War Period

      ByJOANNA ELFVING-HWANG

      chapter 4|14 pages

      Endangered Nation: The Literature of Soviet-Occupied Afghanistan

      ByWALI AHMADI

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Hiroshima, or Peace in a ‘City of Cruelty and Bitter Bad Faith’: Japanese Poetry in the Cold War

      ByANN SHERIF

      chapter 6|13 pages

      Reflections of the Cold War in Modern Persian Literature, 1945–1979

      chapter 7|13 pages

      The ‘Boom’ Novel and the Cold War in Latin America

      ByNEIL LARSEN

      chapter 8|15 pages

      Contested Nationalisms and Socialisms: The Role of Theatre in Seeking Liberation for and between Ethiopia and Eritrea

      ByJANE PLASTOW

      chapter 9|13 pages

      ‘With Friends Like These . . . ’: Soviet Travel Writing about Czechoslovakia during the Khrushchev Era

      ByMARGARITA MARINOVA

      chapter 10|15 pages

      Russian and American Satirists and the Exposure of Cold War Fictionalities

      ByDEREK C. MAUS

      chapter 11|15 pages

      Cold War Protest in East and West German Political Song

      ByDAVID ROBB

      chapter 12|13 pages

      Chinese Women’s Autobiographical Practice in the Early Post- Mao Era

      ByLINGZHEN WANG

      chapter 13|15 pages

      A Corneillian Cold War: Mainstream French Political Drama of the 1950s

      ByJAMIE ANDREWS

      chapter 14|14 pages

      East-Central Europe and the Search for a Literature of the ‘Third Way’

      ByMARCEL CORNIS-POPE
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