The Aesthetic Cold War : : Decolonization and Global Literature / / Peter J. Kalliney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Kalliney, Peter J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Udgivelsesår: 2022
• Sprog: English
• Fysisk beskrivelse: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 25 b/w illus.

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cultural diplomacy and th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Note on Translation and Transliteration
• Part I
• 1. Cultural Diplomacy, the Political Police, and Nonalignment
• 2. A Brief Intellectual History of the Aesthetic Cold War
• Part II
• 3. Modernism, African Literature, and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
• 4. Indigeneity and Internationalism: Soviet Diplomacy and Afro-Asian Literature
• 5. A Failure of Diplomacy: Placing Eileen Chang in Global Literary History
• Part III
• 6. The Activist Manquée, or How Doris Lessing Became an Experimental Writer
• 7. Caribbean Intellectuals and National Culture: C.L.R. James and Claudia Jones
• 8. Notes from Prison: Individual Testimony Meets Collective Resistance
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index