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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.
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.
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