Cold War literature
Subtitle: writing the global conflict
By: edited by Andrew Hammond.
Contributors: Hammond, Andrew.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; War and literature; Cold war in literature; Politics and literature
Description: "The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted - in Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua and elsewhere - in some twenty million dead. This collection of essays analyses the literary response to the coups, insurgencies and invasions that took place around the globe, and explores the various thematic and stylistic trends that Cold War hostilities engendered in world writing."

"Ranging in focus from American postmodernism to Vietnamese poetry, from Cuban autobiography to Maoist theatre, and from African fiction to Soviet propaganda, this book will be of real interest to all those working in twentieth-century literary studies, cultural studies, history and politics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The yellow peril in the Cold War / David Seed; title: The cold war representation of the West in Russian literature / Andrei Rogachevskii; title: Is it chaos? Or is it a building site? / Chris Megson; title: Beyond the apocalypse of closure / Daniel Cordle; title: The Reds and the Blacks / M. Keith Booker & Dubravka Juraga; title: Marxist literary resistance to the Cold War / Alan Wald; title: Poetry, politics and war / Dana Healy; title: Remembering war and revolution on the Maoist stage / Xiaomei Chen; title: Revolution and rejuvenation / Hazel A. Pierre; title: An anxious triangulation / Marcel Cornis-Pope; title: Lifting each other off our knees / Mary K. DeShaze; title: Outwitting the Politburo / Piotr Kuhiwczak; title: The anti-American / Brian Diemert; title: The excluded middle / Jean Franco.