The Palgrave Handbook Of Cold War Literature

Acknowledgements......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
Section I: Themes......Page 35
Freedom and Fabrication: Propaganda and Novels in the Cultural Cold War......Page 36
Novels Become a Measure of Cultural Superiority......Page 39
The Internationalisation of Publishing......Page 40
Literacy as a Political Liberation and Civic Duty......Page 42
Dr. Zhivago: An International Propaganda Weapon......Page 44
Novelists Are Not Ideal Diplomats......Page 45
Lasting Troubles with ‘True’ and ‘Not True’......Page 47
Responding to Cold War Propaganda......Page 51
Print Censorship and the Cultural Cold War: Books in a Bounded World......Page 56
New Approaches to Cold War Censorship......Page 59
German Democratic Republic......Page 62
Occupied Japan......Page 66
South-East Asia......Page 71
Conclusion......Page 74
‘Our Embattled Humanity’: Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age......Page 75
Cold War Is Hot War......Page 95
Vocabularies and Epistemologies: Inter/Transnational and Women/Feminist......Page 98
The Place of Literature......Page 101
From the Individual Body to the Body Politic......Page 104
Where the Body Is Located......Page 106
Oppositional Tactics Continued......Page 110
Introduction......Page 115
Theorising Reparative Encounters with Queer Literature......Page 118
American Containment Culture and LGBTQ Identity Politics......Page 121
Reading Global Queer Literature Outside LGBTQ Identity Containers......Page 127
Conclusion: Retrospection and Survival During the Plague Years......Page 132
Beyond Containment: The Left-Wing Movement in Literature, 1945–1989......Page 135
The Politics of Vulnerability: Nuclear Peril and the Global Imagination......Page 155
The System as Subject......Page 157
Imaginative Ground Zero: Hiroshima......Page 160
From the Margins of the Cold War: Global Hibakusha......Page 166
Conclusion......Page 172
The Battle of Conferences: Cultural Decolonisation and Global Cold War......Page 174
Forms of Hot and Cold Conflict......Page 176
West and East Berlin Notes......Page 179
Documents from Luanda......Page 187
The Bandung Era, Non-alignment and the Third-Way Literary Imagination......Page 194
Anti-colonialism and the Politics of Writing......Page 197
Non-alignment and the Politics of Decolonisation......Page 200
Foundations and Directions of the Third-Way Literary Imagination......Page 203
The African Writers Series......Page 206
Third-Way Politics and the Latin American Literary Boom......Page 209
Conclusions......Page 212
Section II: Genres......Page 214
The Spread of Socialist Realism: Soviet and Chinese Developments......Page 215
Magical Realism in the Context of Cold War Cultural Interventions......Page 235
Magical Realism in Latin America During the Cold War......Page 236
Magical Realism and Political Radicalism......Page 240
Rushdie and the Indian Total Novel......Page 245
Magical Realism, the Late Cold War and the Autoethnographic Turn......Page 248
Monsters and Metaphors......Page 254
Globalisation of Paranoia......Page 255
Monsters of Knowledge......Page 258
Two Invasions......Page 262
Suspicion and/of Sublimity......Page 266
Divided Worlds: The Political Interventions of Science Fiction......Page 271
Plenty of Blame to Spread Around: Dystopia(nism) and the Cold War......Page 290
Parodic and Satiric Aspects of Dystopia......Page 295
A Taxonomy of Cold War Dystopia......Page 298
Conclusion: To What End, Dystopia?......Page 308
World Citizens: Espionage Literature in the Cold War......Page 310
The Citizen and the Spy......Page 311
Defections......Page 315
The Bond Effect......Page 320
Thrillers and States......Page 325
Conclusion......Page 329
Speaking Trauma and History: The Collective Voice of Testimonial Literature......Page 330
Trauma, Betrayal and Collective Memory......Page 332
Soviet Literatures of Captivity......Page 335
Korea: Voices Across the 38th Parallel......Page 341
South Korea......Page 346
Cuban Stories......Page 349
Cold War Poetry and Migrant Writing......Page 351
Dissent and Its Discontents in Cold War Poetry......Page 372
‘Them Russians’: Allen Ginsberg and Andrey Voznesensky’s Double Dissent......Page 375
‘Alter/Native’ Dissent: Kamau Brathwaite, Hone Tūwhare and Postcolonial Poetry......Page 378
‘Who Is We?’: Gender, Race and Cold War Powerplay in Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde......Page 383
‘There Is No Such Word’: Refusing Dissent in Soviet Poetry......Page 387
‘You Can’t Even Imagine Us’: Dissent After Dissent......Page 389
Theatre and Drama in the Hot Zones of the Cold War: Selected Case Studies......Page 392
Cold War Culture in Latin America and Africa......Page 393
Theatre in Latin America’s Cold War: Cuba and Nicaragua......Page 395
Theatre in Cold War Africa: Kenya and Eritrea......Page 400
Connections: Form, Content, Goals......Page 408
Section III: Regions......Page 412
Cold War Literature of North America......Page 413
Cold War Culture in the US and Canada......Page 414
Canadian Exceptionalism......Page 420
The Cold War World Could Use More Canada......Page 427
Islands Between Worlds: Caribbean Cold War Literatures......Page 434
Literary Alignment and Post-War Geopolitical Positioning......Page 436
Cultural Nation-Building and Caribbean Black Internationalism......Page 438
Caribbean Intellectuals as Cold War Dissidents......Page 442
Caribbean Literature Between the Cuban Revolution and US Intervention......Page 445
US Ex Machina: Representing Cold War Imperialism from Below......Page 450
Conclusion......Page 452
Uneven Battles: Central American Cold War Literature......Page 454
Dictators and US Involvement......Page 456
Guerrillas and Militants......Page 460
Outgunned......Page 462
Other Battle Lines......Page 464
Dissidence and Death......Page 467
No Closure......Page 470
An Ideological Pendulum: South American Literary Interventions in Cold War Politics......Page 474
The Soviet Cold War Literary Imagination......Page 492
The ‘Fight for Peace’ and the Imperial Imaginary......Page 495
The Wartime Poetry of Peace......Page 504
Introduction......Page 511
The Onset of the Cold War......Page 514
The Thaw: Literature After Stalinism......Page 519
Networks at Home and Abroad......Page 522
Two Writers in Exile......Page 526
Conclusion......Page 530
Western European Literature and the East-West Conflict......Page 532
Southern Africa, the Cold War and Literature......Page 551
The 1960s......Page 557
The 1970s......Page 560
The 1980s......Page 565
Writing Africa Under the Cold War: Arrested Decolonisation and Geopolitical Integration......Page 570
Cold War Literature of the Middle East and North Africa......Page 589
The Question of Palestine......Page 591
Independence and Its Discontents......Page 595
The 1960s......Page 600
The Cold War in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 603
The End of the Cold War......Page 607
Cold War Literature in East Asia......Page 610
Japan......Page 613
Korea......Page 619
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong......Page 624
Conclusion......Page 628
Cold War Violence, Nationalism and Structures of Feeling in the Literatures of Southeast Asia......Page 629
‘No Ordinary Sun’: Indigenous Pacific Cold War Literature......Page 647
The Emergence of Indigenous Pacific Literature......Page 649
The Spread of Nationalist and Millenarian Movements......Page 650
Socialism, Capitalism and Development in Pacific Literature......Page 656
The Cold War and the ‘Nuclear Pacific’......Page 662
Legacies of Military Imperialism in the 1980s......Page 665
Conclusion......Page 671
The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth......Page 673
The Cold War Construction of a Continent for Peace and Science......Page 674
Writing Antarctica: Constraints and Opportunities......Page 677
Contagion and Containment......Page 680
Control and Transformation......Page 684
Concealment and Revelation......Page 687
Conclusion......Page 690
Bibliography......Page 693
Index......Page 782