The Cultural Cold Warand the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Table Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas The Global South and the Cold War Culture: Conflict and Communitas Sites and Archives: Methodological and Conceptual Approaches to the Global Cold War Mapping the Sites: Literary Meetings, Art and Film Festivals, Print Culture Circuits, and Political Performances Conclusion: What Was Not Destroyed but Does Not (Yet) Exist Notes References Part I: Literary and Cultural Conferences and Meetings 1. Cultural Bandung or Writerly Cold War? Revisiting the 1956 Asian Writers' Conference from an India-China Perspective Introduction Cold War Politics at Play China's Engagement in the AWC To Know, to Feel, and to Learn: A Site of South-South Literary Exchanges Conclusions Notes References 2. Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Cultural Congress of Havana, and the Role of Culture in the Global South Negritude and Black Culture before 1968 The Cultural Congress of Havana and the Tricontinental Turn Conclusions: Post-1968 Cultural Revolution and African Nationalism Notes References 3. The Limits of Global Solidarity: Reading the 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana through Andrew Salkey's Havana Journal Setting the Scene The Position of Black Americans at the CCH Racial Equality in Revolutionary Cuba Cuban Cultural Politics and the Limits of Solidarity Notes References 4. Sovereign Alliances: Reading the Romance between Cuba and the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1970s The Cuban-Caribbean Rapprochement and the Performance of Regional Sovereignty Reading Cuban Cultural Diplomacy: "Caliban" and Carifesta The U.S. Invasion of Grenada and the Decline of Sovereign Imaginaries Notes References 5. "We Understand Each Other": Writers from Eastern Europe and the Global South at the International Writing Program (1970s) The International Writing Program and the "Community of Imagination" Reaching into Different Worlds: Global Encounters at the IWP "Let Them Feel Superior": Hosts and Guests Conclusion Notes References Part II: Networks and Festivals of Visual Art and Cinema 6. Cinema in the Spirit of Bandung: The Afro-Asian Film Festival Circuit, 1957–1964 Between Bandung and the Cultural Cold War Cinematic Sovereignty Across Ideological Lines Contradictions and Legacies Conclusion Notes References 7. From Dakar to Diaspora: The Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres as Nexus and Network Toward a New Solidarity African Rhythms: A Soviet Vision The First World Festival of Negro Arts: An African-American Response Legacies: The Voices of FESMAN Notes References 8. В Сенегале (In Senegal) and Ритмы Африки (African Rhythms): Soviet Documentaries on Senegal during the Cold War In Senegal: Celebrating Independence, Advocating the Soviet Path African Rhythms: Celebrating African Culture the Soviet Way Notes References 9. Ousmane Sembène's Borom Sarret and the Circulation of "Tractor Art": A Cold War Contestation of Soviet Machine Iconography Dovzhenko's Montages of Tractor-Driven Progress The Militaristic Tractor in Pyriev's Stalinist Musical Comedy Contesting the Tractor's Reach: Sembène's Horse-Drawn Cart Notes References 10. Networks of South-South Solidarity and Cold War Argentine Filmmaking Background Constructing Political Realities El Bonaerense and "terrible parallel realities" The New Left and Activist Cinema Conclusion Notes References Part III: Literature and Print Culture Itineraries 11. War, Famine, and Newsprint: The Making of Soviet India, 1942-1945 A Time of War and Famine Newsprint and Nation: The Making of 'Soviet India' Two Fronts: The Bengal Famine and the Battle of Stalingrad Conclusion: People's War and the Horizon of History Notes Works Cited 12. The Vatic Bargain: Solidarity and the Futures of the Philippine Cold War From Bandung to Pan Am: Promises of Modernization Philippine Nationalisms Writing the Philippine Imaginary Scripts for the Philippine Character Conclusion: The Vatic Bargain, No Zero-Sum Game Notes References 13. Asia's Refugee City: Hong Kong in the Cold War A Cold War Contact Zone The Cultural Politics of Refugee Novels Refugeetude in Cold War Hong Kong Refugees as the Global South Notes References 14. Freedom and Development in the Cultural Cold War Temporality and Development Discourse A Slow Unfoldment Conclusion Notes References 15. Raindrop on Dusty Ground: Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, and the Cold War African Literature, the Cold War and Questions of Historiography Story-Writing as History-Writing Historiographic Interventions in Variations Notes References Part IV: Spectacular Performances 16. Choreographing Ideology: On the Ballet Adaptation of Peter Abrahams' The Path of Thunder in the Soviet Union Conditions of Wild Violence Improper Company Notes References 17. "It's like inviting Pinochet to the Fourth of July": The Chilean Ship Esmeralda and Intersecting Spectacles in the Global Cold War The Esmeralda and the Long Chilean Cold War The Esmeralda's International Voyages Intersecting Spectacles: The Esmeralda and the Cultural Cold War of the United States Cutting Out the Dictator: The Pinochet Regime as an "Ugly Detail" Conclusion Note References 18. Reenacting Bodily Archives of the Cold War in Lola Arias's Minefield Embodying the Archive of the Cold War Performing Shifts in Alliance of the Cold War Notes References Afterword 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Notes References Index