The Bloomsbury handbook to Cold War literary cultures
The Bloomsbury handbook to Cold War literary cultures
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
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| Omfang | vii, 445 sider : illustrasjoner i svart hvitt
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| Opplysninger | Introduction -- Section 1. Production. 1. How the Communist Party Shaped Gwendolyn Brooks's Early Writing / Mary Helen Washington ; 2. The Cold War Encyclopedic Novel / Jeffrey Severs, University of British Columbia (Canada) ; 3. Cold War Technology and Women Poets / Linda Kinnahan, Duquesne University (USA) ; 4. The American Long Poem Evolves, 1945-1990 / Ed Brunner, Southern Illinois University (USA) ; 5. Butler, Le Guin, and Feminist Science Fiction of the Cold War / Katlyn Williams, University of Iowa (USA) ; 6. Cold War Spy Fiction / Skip Willman, University of South Dakota ; 7. American Jewish Writers and the Eastern Bloc / Brian Goodman, Arizona State University (USA) ; 8. Writing the Cold War in the American Academic Novel / Ian Butcher, Fanshawe University (Canada) -- Section II. Circulation. 9. Anglo-American Propaganda and the Transition from the Second World War to the Cultural Cold War / James Smith and Guy Woodward, Durham University (UK) ; 10. Book Diplomacy: Rósa Magnúsdóttir and Birgitte Beck Pristed, Aarhus University (Denmark) ; 11. Closets, Pulps, and the Gay Internationale / Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi (USA) ; 12. Librarians, Library Diplomacy, and the Cultural Cold War, 1950-1970 / Amanda Laugesen, Australian National University (Australia) ; 13. The Transcription Centre and the Co-Production of African Literary Culture in the 1960s / Asha Rogers, University of Birmingham (UK) ; 14. Creative Writing and the Cold War / Eric Bennett, Providence College (USA) ; 15. How Chinese Letters Traveled to Iowa City / P Yi-hung Liu, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) ; 16. William Faulkner as Cold War Cultural Ambassador / Deborah Cohn, Indiana University (USA) -- Section III. Reception. 17. The Distribution and Reception of American Literature in Cold War Japan / Hiromi Ochi, Senshu University, Tokyo (Japan) ; 18. Making a Literary Working Class in the Cultural Cold War / Nicole Moore, University of New South Wales (Australia) ; 19. Anti-Apartheid Imagination, the Cold War-era, and African Literary Magazines / Christopher Ouma, University of Cape Town (South Africa) ; 20. Cuban Revolutionaries Read U.S. Writers / Russell Cobb, University of Alberta (Canada) ; 21. "Cultural Freedom" in Cold War India / Laetitia Zecchini, CNRS Paris (France) ; 22. Robinson Jeffers's Journey behind the Iron Curtain / Jirina Smejkalova, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) ; 23. Reading for Freedom in Cold War America / Kristin Matthews, Brigham Young University (USA). - "Telling the story of the late 20th century with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this book asks how the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. Adopting a book historical approach to its subject, this collection uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently. Broad in both its geographical range and the range of writers it examines, essays look at works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Bellow, as well as moving beyond the U.S. to look at lesser-known writers working in what was then the periphery of the Cold War's European theater in places like India, South Africa, and Taiwan. Familiar writers appear in sometimes unexpected ways-Faulkner as a Cold War diplomat; Auden as a member of the so-called "homintern" of leftist gay writers; and Robinson Jeffers as a catalyst of Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution." And underscoring how English became the lingua franca of Western literary culture in the Cold War, other essays will move beyond the U.K. and U.S. to detail how writers and readers from Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary traditions and texts."
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| Emner | American literature - History and criticism.
Book industries and trade - History Cold War. English literature - History and criticism. Vis mer... Literature and society.
Politics and literature. Den kalde krigen engelsk litteratur amerikansk litteratur hånadbøker litteraturkritikk |
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| ISBN | 9781350191716 : £130.00. - £117.00
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| ISBN(galt) | 9781350191723 (PDF ebook) :. - 9781350191730 (ePub ebook) :
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