Global Cold War Literature Western Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives 1st Edition by Andrew Hammond ISBN 0415885418 9780415885416

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ISBN 10: 0415885418 
ISBN 13: 9780415885416
Author: Andrew Hammond

The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted – in Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua and elsewhere – in some twenty million dead. This collection of essays analyses the literary response to the coups, insurgencies and invasions that took place around the globe, and explores the various thematic and stylistic trends that Cold War hostilities engendered in world writing. Drawing together scholars of various cultural backgrounds, the volume focuses upon such themes as representation, nationalism, political resistance, globalisation and ideological scepticism. Eschewing the typical focus in Cold War scholarship on Western authors and genres, there is an emphasis on the literary voices that emerged from what are often considered the ‘peripheral’ regions of Cold War geo-politics. Ranging in focus from American postmodernism to Vietnamese poetry, from Cuban autobiography to Maoist theatre, and from African fiction to Soviet propaganda, this book will be of real interest to all those working in twentieth-century literary studies, cultural studies, history and politics.

Global Cold War Literature Western Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives 1st Table of contents:

1 The Yellow Peril in the Cold War
Notes
2 The Cold War representation of the West in Russian literature1
Notes
3 ‘Is it chaos? Or is it a building site?’
Disillusionment and desire
Beyond Realism
Conclusion
Notes
4 Beyond the apocalypse of closure
The emergence of Cold War nuclear fears
The literature of nuclear anxiety
Notes
5 The Reds and the Blacks
Notes
6 Marxist literary resistance to the Cold War
The Un-American Renaissance
The African-American dimensions
Legacy
Notes
7 Poetry, politics and war
Literature as a weapon
Poetry
Themes in war poetry
Beyond illusions: revisiting the past
Notes
8 Remembering war and revolution on the Maoist stage
Notes
9 Revolution and rejuvenation
Notes
10 An anxious triangulation
Notes
11 ‘Lifting each other off our knees’
Notes
12 Outwitting the politburo
Notes
13 The anti-American
Notes
14 The excluded middle
Notes

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