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Cold War Reckonings - Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (Hardcover)
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Cold War Reckonings - Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (Hardcover)
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Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language
Association Honorable Mention, Rene Wellek Prize, American
Comparative Literature Association How did the Cold War shape
culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise
to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War
Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global
shift from colonialism to independent nation-states. Assembling a
body of transpacific cultural works that speak to this historical
conjuncture, Jini Kim Watson reveals autocracy to be not a
deficient form of liberal democracy, but rather the result of Cold
War entanglements with decolonization. Focusing on East and
Southeast Asia, the book scrutinizes cultural texts ranging from
dissident poetry, fiction, and writers' conference proceedings of
the Cold War period, to more recent literature, graphic novels, and
films that retrospectively look back to these decades with a
critical eye. Paying particular attention to anti-communist
repression and state infrastructures of violence, the book provides
a richaccount of several U.S.-allied Cold War regimes in the Asia
Pacific, including the South Korean military dictatorship, Marcos'
rule in the Philippines, illiberal Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew,
and Suharto's Indonesia. Watson's book argues that the cultural
forms and narrative techniques that emerged from the Cold
War-decolonizing matrix offer new ways of comprehending these
histories and connecting them to our present. The book advances our
understanding of the global reverberations of the Cold War and its
enduring influence on cultural and political formations in the Asia
Pacific. Cold War Reckonings is available from the publisher on an
open-access basis.
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