The Cultural Cold War and the Global South - Sites of Contest and Communitas (Hardcover)

This volume investigates the cultural sites where the global Cold War played out. It brings to view unpredictable encounters that arose as writers, artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals from or aligned with the Third World navigated the ideological and material constraints set by superpowers and emerging regional powers. Often these encounters generated communitas and solidarity, while at times they fed old and new conflicts. Pushing forward recent scholarship that tracks the Cold War in the Global South and draws on postcolonial approaches, our contributors use archival, secondary, and ethnographic sources to trace the afterlives and memories of key figures and to explore meetings that performed cultural diplomacy. Our focus on sites of encounter or exchange underscores the situated, interpersonal, and embodied dimensions through which much of the cultural Cold War was experienced. While the global conflict divided citizens along ideological fault lines, it also linked people through circulating media-novels, film, posters, journals, and theatre-and multinational conferences that brought artists, intellectuals, and political activists together. Such contacts introduced new axes of solidarity and hierarchies of exclusion. Examining these connections and disjunctures, this new and necessary mapping of the cultural Cold War highlights under-addressed locations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War
Release date:	July 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Kerry Bystrom • Monica Popescu • Katherine Zien
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-67937-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	0-367-67937-X
Barcode:	9780367679378

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