This collection of essays analyzes the literary response to the coups, insurgencies and invasions that took place around the globe during the Cold War, and explores the thematic and stylistic trends in world writing prompted by Cold War hostilities.
This collection of essays analyzes the literary response to the coups, insurgencies and invasions that took place around the globe during the Cold War, and explores the thematic and stylistic trends in world writing prompted by Cold War hostilities.
Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer of English Literature at the Swansea Institute, University of Wales.
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1. The Yellow Peril in the Cold War: Fu Manchu and the Manchurian Candidate 2. The Cold War Representation of the West in Russian Literature 3. "Is It Chaos? Or Is It a Building Site?": British Theatrical Responses to the Cold War and Its Aftermath 4. Beyond the Apocalypse of Closure: Nuclear Anxiety in Postmodern Literature of the United States 5. The Reds and the Blacks: The Historical Novel in the Soviet Union and Postcolonial Africa 6. Marxist Literary Resistance to the Cold War 7. Poetry, Politics and War: Representations of the American War in Vietnamese Poetry' 8. Remembering War and Revolution on the Maoist Stage 9. Revolution and Rejuvenation: Imagining Communist Cuba 10. An Anxious Triangulation: Cold War, Nationalism and Regional Resistance in East-Central European Literatures 11."Lifting Each Other off Our Knees": South African Women's Poetry of Resistance, 1980-1989 12. Outwitting the Politburo: Politics and Poetry behind the Iron Curtain 13. The Anti-American: Graham Greene and the Cold War in the 1950s 14. The Excluded Middle: Intellectuals and the 'Cold War' in Latin America. Bibliography. Index
1. The Yellow Peril in the Cold War: Fu Manchu and the Manchurian Candidate 2. The Cold War Representation of the West in Russian Literature 3. "Is It Chaos? Or Is It a Building Site?": British Theatrical Responses to the Cold War and Its Aftermath 4. Beyond the Apocalypse of Closure: Nuclear Anxiety in Postmodern Literature of the United States 5. The Reds and the Blacks: The Historical Novel in the Soviet Union and Postcolonial Africa 6. Marxist Literary Resistance to the Cold War 7. Poetry, Politics and War: Representations of the American War in Vietnamese Poetry' 8. Remembering War and Revolution on the Maoist Stage 9. Revolution and Rejuvenation: Imagining Communist Cuba 10. An Anxious Triangulation: Cold War, Nationalism and Regional Resistance in East-Central European Literatures 11."Lifting Each Other off Our Knees": South African Women's Poetry of Resistance, 1980-1989 12. Outwitting the Politburo: Politics and Poetry behind the Iron Curtain 13. The Anti-American: Graham Greene and the Cold War in the 1950s 14. The Excluded Middle: Intellectuals and the 'Cold War' in Latin America. Bibliography. Index
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