The literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam / [electronic resource]
Piette, Adam,author.
This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Introduction -- The special relationship and the British hypothesis: The black laurel, The third man, Cold War Vienna and Berlin -- Cold War on the 1930s and sacrificial naming: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst -- DEW line, uranium and the Arctic Cold War: Ginsberg's Kaddish and Nabokov's Lolita -- Cold War sex war, or the other being inside: Burroughs, Paley, Plath, Hughes -- The sacrificial logic of the Asian Cold War: Greene's The quiet American and McCarthy's The seventeenth degree -- Conclusion.
This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US.
English literature
American literature
Cold War
Cold War in literature.