The Underside of Politics : : Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War / / Sorin Radu Cucu.
This book argues that during the Cold War modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality—freedom in the West versus social justice in the East—and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to national security. Examining post- 1945 American a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude
- Introduction. Writing the Cold War: Literature, Democracy and the Global Polis
- 1. Kafka and the Cold War: Fantasies of the Invisible Master
- 2. The Vicissitudes of Popular Sovereignty
- 3. National Security in the Age of the Global Picture
- 4. All Power to the Networks!
- Concluding Remarks: Transnational American Studies in the Fog of the Cold War
- Notes
- Index