Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415885416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 256 str.

Andrew Hammond

Opis

In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society & culture during the second half of the 20th century. This text offers a look at the multiple ways in which writers from Asia, Africa, Europe & North & South America addressed the military conflicts, revolutions, propaganda wars & ideological debates of the era.

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Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgements  On the Frontlines of Writing: Introducing the Literary Cold War Andrew Hammond  1. Anti-Communism on the American Stage Brenda Murphy  2. Factography and Cold War Ideology in the Cuban Detective Novel Ignacio López-Calvo  3. Cross-Border Representation in South and North Korean Literatures of the Cold War Period Joanna Elfving-Hwang  4. Endangered Nation: The Literature of Soviet-Occupied Afghanistan Wali Ahmadi  5. Hiroshima, or Peace in a ‘City of Cruelty and Bitter Bad Faith’: Japanese Poetry in the Cold War Ann Sherif  6. Reflections of the Cold War in Modern Persian Literature, 1945-1979 Nasrin Rahimieh  7. The ‘Boom’ Novel and the Cold War in Latin America Neil Larsen  8. Contested Nationalisms and Socialisms: The Role of Theatre in Seeking Liberation for and between Ethiopia and Eritrea Jane Plastow  9. ‘With Friends Like These…’: Soviet Travel Writing about Czechoslovakia during the Khrushchev Era Margarita Marinova  10. Russian and American Satirists and the Exposure of Cold War Fictionalities Derek C. Maus  11. Cold War Protest in East and West German Political Song David Robb  12. Chinese Women’s Autobiographical Practice in the Early Post-Mao Era Lingzhen Wang  13. A Corneillian Cold War: Mainstream French Political Drama of the 1950s Jamie Andrews  14. East-Central Europe and the Search for a Literature of the ‘Third Way’ Marcel Cornis-Pope  Works Cited  Index

O autorze

Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. In both research and teaching, he has specialised in Cold War fiction, postcolonial writing and cross-cultural representation. His publications include Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict (2006), The Debated Lands: British and American Representations of the Balkans (2007) and British Literature and the Balkans: Themes and Contexts (2010).