Cold War Literature - Writing the Global Conflict (Hardcover)

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 organizing, 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 analyzes 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, globalization and ideological skepticism. 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	2006
Editors:	Andrew Hammond
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-34948-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-415-34948-6
Barcode:	9780415349482

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