The Palgrave Handbook Of Cold War Literature

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This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War. Eschewing the common focus on national cultures, the collection defines Cold War literature as an international current focused on the military and ideological conflicts of the age and characterised by styles and approaches that transcended national borders. Drawing on specialists from across the world, the volume analyses the period’s fiction, poetry, drama and autobiographical writings in three sections: dominant concerns (socialism, decolonisation, nuclearism, propaganda, censorship, espionage), common genres (postmodernism, socialism realism, dystopianism, migrant poetry, science fiction, testimonial writing) and regional cultures (Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and the Americas). In doing so, the volume forms a landmark contribution to Cold War literary studies which will appeal to all those working on literature of the 1945-1989 period, including specialists in comparative literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary literature and regional literature. Acknowledgements......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Notes on Contributors......Page 10 Introduction......Page 16 Section I: Themes......Page 35 Freedom and Fabrication: Propaganda and Novels in the Cultural Cold War......Page 36 Novels Become a Measure of Cultural Superiority......Page 39 The Internationalisation of Publishing......Page 40 Literacy as a Political Liberation and Civic Duty......Page 42 Dr. Zhivago: An International Propaganda Weapon......Page 44 Novelists Are Not Ideal Diplomats......Page 45 Lasting Troubles with ‘True’ and ‘Not True’......Page 47 Responding to Cold War Propaganda......Page 51 Print Censorship and the Cultural Cold War: Books in a Bounded World......Page 56 New Approaches to Cold War Censorship......Page 59 German Democratic Republic......Page 62 Occupied Japan......Page 66 South-East Asia......Page 71 Conclusion......Page 74 ‘Our Embattled Humanity’: Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age......Page 75 Cold War Is Hot War......Page 95 Vocabularies and Epistemologies: Inter/Transnational and Women/Feminist......Page 98 The Place of Literature......Page 101 From the Individual Body to the Body Politic......Page 104 Where the Body Is Located......Page 106 Oppositional Tactics Continued......Page 110 Introduction......Page 115 Theorising Reparative Encounters with Queer Literature......Page 118 American Containment Culture and LGBTQ Identity Politics......Page 121 Reading Global Queer Literature Outside LGBTQ Identity Containers......Page 127 Conclusion: Retrospection and Survival During the Plague Years......Page 132 Beyond Containment: The Left-Wing Movement in Literature, 1945–1989......Page 135 The Politics of Vulnerability: Nuclear Peril and the Global Imagination......Page 155 The System as Subject......Page 157 Imaginative Ground Zero: Hiroshima......Page 160 From the Margins of the Cold War: Global Hibakusha......Page 166 Conclusion......Page 172 The Battle of Conferences: Cultural Decolonisation and Global Cold War......Page 174 Forms of Hot and Cold Conflict......Page 176 West and East Berlin Notes......Page 179 Documents from Luanda......Page 187 The Bandung Era, Non-alignment and the Third-Way Literary Imagination......Page 194 Anti-colonialism and the Politics of Writing......Page 197 Non-alignment and the Politics of Decolonisation......Page 200 Foundations and Directions of the Third-Way Literary Imagination......Page 203 The African Writers Series......Page 206 Third-Way Politics and the Latin American Literary Boom......Page 209 Conclusions......Page 212 Section II: Genres......Page 214 The Spread of Socialist Realism: Soviet and Chinese Developments......Page 215 Magical Realism in the Context of Cold War Cultural Interventions......Page 235 Magical Realism in Latin America During the Cold War......Page 236 Magical Realism and Political Radicalism......Page 240 Rushdie and the Indian Total Novel......Page 245 Magical Realism, the Late Cold War and the Autoethnographic Turn......Page 248 Monsters and Metaphors......Page 254 Globalisation of Paranoia......Page 255 Monsters of Knowledge......Page 258 Two Invasions......Page 262 Suspicion and/of Sublimity......Page 266 Divided Worlds: The Political Interventions of Science Fiction......Page 271 Plenty of Blame to Spread Around: Dystopia(nism) and the Cold War......Page 290 Parodic and Satiric Aspects of Dystopia......Page 295 A Taxonomy of Cold War Dystopia......Page 298 Conclusion: To What End, Dystopia?......Page 308 World Citizens: Espionage Literature in the Cold War......Page 310 The Citizen and the Spy......Page 311 Defections......Page 315 The Bond Effect......Page 320 Thrillers and States......Page 325 Conclusion......Page 329 Speaking Trauma and History: The Collective Voice of Testimonial Literature......Page 330 Trauma, Betrayal and Collective Memory......Page 332 Soviet Literatures of Captivity......Page 335 Korea: Voices Across the 38th Parallel......Page 341 South Korea......Page 346 Cuban Stories......Page 349 Cold War Poetry and Migrant Writing......Page 351 Dissent and Its Discontents in Cold War Poetry......Page 372 ‘Them Russians’: Allen Ginsberg and Andrey Voznesensky’s Double Dissent......Page 375 ‘Alter/Native’ Dissent: Kamau Brathwaite, Hone Tūwhare and Postcolonial Poetry......Page 378 ‘Who Is We?’: Gender, Race and Cold War Powerplay in Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde......Page 383 ‘There Is No Such Word’: Refusing Dissent in Soviet Poetry......Page 387 ‘You Can’t Even Imagine Us’: Dissent After Dissent......Page 389 Theatre and Drama in the Hot Zones of the Cold War: Selected Case Studies......Page 392 Cold War Culture in Latin America and Africa......Page 393 Theatre in Latin America’s Cold War: Cuba and Nicaragua......Page 395 Theatre in Cold War Africa: Kenya and Eritrea......Page 400 Connections: Form, Content, Goals......Page 408 Section III: Regions......Page 412 Cold War Literature of North America......Page 413 Cold War Culture in the US and Canada......Page 414 Canadian Exceptionalism......Page 420 The Cold War World Could Use More Canada......Page 427 Islands Between Worlds: Caribbean Cold War Literatures......Page 434 Literary Alignment and Post-War Geopolitical Positioning......Page 436 Cultural Nation-Building and Caribbean Black Internationalism......Page 438 Caribbean Intellectuals as Cold War Dissidents......Page 442 Caribbean Literature Between the Cuban Revolution and US Intervention......Page 445 US Ex Machina: Representing Cold War Imperialism from Below......Page 450 Conclusion......Page 452 Uneven Battles: Central American Cold War Literature......Page 454 Dictators and US Involvement......Page 456 Guerrillas and Militants......Page 460 Outgunned......Page 462 Other Battle Lines......Page 464 Dissidence and Death......Page 467 No Closure......Page 470 An Ideological Pendulum: South American Literary Interventions in Cold War Politics......Page 474 The Soviet Cold War Literary Imagination......Page 492 The ‘Fight for Peace’ and the Imperial Imaginary......Page 495 The Wartime Poetry of Peace......Page 504 Introduction......Page 511 The Onset of the Cold War......Page 514 The Thaw: Literature After Stalinism......Page 519 Networks at Home and Abroad......Page 522 Two Writers in Exile......Page 526 Conclusion......Page 530 Western European Literature and the East-West Conflict......Page 532 Southern Africa, the Cold War and Literature......Page 551 The 1960s......Page 557 The 1970s......Page 560 The 1980s......Page 565 Writing Africa Under the Cold War: Arrested Decolonisation and Geopolitical Integration......Page 570 Cold War Literature of the Middle East and North Africa......Page 589 The Question of Palestine......Page 591 Independence and Its Discontents......Page 595 The 1960s......Page 600 The Cold War in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 603 The End of the Cold War......Page 607 Cold War Literature in East Asia......Page 610 Japan......Page 613 Korea......Page 619 China, Taiwan, Hong Kong......Page 624 Conclusion......Page 628 Cold War Violence, Nationalism and Structures of Feeling in the Literatures of Southeast Asia......Page 629 ‘No Ordinary Sun’: Indigenous Pacific Cold War Literature......Page 647 The Emergence of Indigenous Pacific Literature......Page 649 The Spread of Nationalist and Millenarian Movements......Page 650 Socialism, Capitalism and Development in Pacific Literature......Page 656 The Cold War and the ‘Nuclear Pacific’......Page 662 Legacies of Military Imperialism in the 1980s......Page 665 Conclusion......Page 671 The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth......Page 673 The Cold War Construction of a Continent for Peace and Science......Page 674 Writing Antarctica: Constraints and Opportunities......Page 677 Contagion and Containment......Page 680 Control and Transformation......Page 684 Concealment and Revelation......Page 687 Conclusion......Page 690 Bibliography......Page 693 Index......Page 782