Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World

Theatre, Film, Literature and Things
Herausgeber: Balme, Christopher B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the USA and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781032051611
• ISBN-10: 1032051612
• Artikelnr.: 72104253

Autorenporträt

Christopher B. Balme is professor of Theatre Studies and a director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global:disconnect at LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and
Realism Part 1: Networks and Institutions 3. Cold War Mobilities: Eastern
European Theatre Going Global 4. Theatre for Influence: American Cultural
and Philanthropic Missions in West Africa During the Early Cold War Part 2:
Cultural Diplomacy 5. "Propaganda Was Almost Nil"?: Soviet Books and
Publishing in India in the 1960s 6. Indo-Soviet Circus Exchanges During the
Cold War: State Propaganda or a People's Art Form? Part 3: Artists and
Agency 7. Narratives of Education and Migration: From La Noire de...
(1966) to Octobre (1993) 8. Brecht as a Tool for Cultural Development: East
German ITI Events for Theatre Artists from the "Third World" 9. "Clean
Tablets to Write Upon": Ibsen's Brand in Riga and Moscow in the 1970s Part
4: Cultures of Things 10. Soviet Books, Geopolitical Imagination and
Eclectic Solidarities in India 11. National Theatres in Africa Between
Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage