Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital

ISBN-13: 9780367670900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Bhakti Shringarpure

Opis

This book bridges the gap between the parallel histories of postcoloniality and the 45-year rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The superpowers relied upon the decolonizing world to further imperial agendas, and the postcolony in turn was shaped by Cold War discourses and paradigms.

Spis treści

Introduction: Cold War Assemblages  1. Epistemic Bifurcations: Fanon, Gandhi, and the Failure of Theory  2. Dying Before Their Time: Lumumba, Cabral, and Sankara  3. Cold War Disciplinarity: Postcolonial Studies and Its Discontents  4. The Cold War Paradigm: A Trajectory of Literary Canons.  Epilogue: The Postcolony Is a Cold War Ruin

O autorze

Bhakti Shringarpure is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and editor-in-chief of Warscapes magazine.