Search Results for Cold War literature

... histories of modernism and of anglophone African literature became intertwined through avowals of Cold War neutrality from the first generation of postcolonial writers. Soyinka’s early drama uses this combination of modernist aesthetics and wariness of nationalist excess. In fact, one of Soyinka’s big...

... collection of essays on South African “histories of the book”; and coeditor of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies . He also writes about South African art and postcolonial queer studies. South African Literature beyond the Cold War . By Popescu Monica . New York...

...Shuang Shen Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide . By Xiaojue Wang . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xiii + 359 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Modernity with a Cold...

...Laura Chrisman [email protected] At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War . By Monica Popescu . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . x + 258 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Investigation of the Cold War’s cultural...

... of philological recovery, one especially well represented in the works of Ezra Pound; and (3) a phenomenological project of verbal “worlding.” Second, following these high modernist phases, comes a “late modernist” phase defined in no small measure by the politics of the Popular Front and the global Cold War...

... world’s humanities and of the liberal arts more generally. “Realism” and “modernism” were thus produced at once as rei ed categories and as the obvious termini of modern “world literature.” Still, while the Cold War simpli ed and calci ed the realism- versus- modernism polemics that had rst...

... as a critical thinker are six hefty chapters, framed by the years of Good Neighbor diplomacy (1938–45), the early Cold War, the 1960s, and the early 1970s. The idea and the very possibility of a “poetry of the Americas,” Feinsod suggests, undergirded many forms of USAmerican, Latin American, and Caribbean...

... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Popescu Monica . 2010 . South African Literature beyond the Cold War . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Price Leah . 2009 . “ From the History of the Book to a ‘History of the Book.’ ” In “The Way We Read Now,” edited by Best Stephen...

... . Ardis Ann , and Collier Patrick , eds. 2008 . Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880–1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms . New York : Palgrave . Barnhisel Greg . 2015 . Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy . New York : Columbia University...

... Jacques . 1993 . Spectres de Marx: L’état de la dette, le travail du deuil et la Nouvelle Internationale . Paris : Galilée . Dillon Steven . 2004 . Derek Jarman and Lyric Film . Austin : University of Texas Press . Favret Mary . 2009 . War at a Distance: Romanticism...

.... As this range of terms suggests, Third Worldism as politi- cal discourse catalyzed both national independence movements in the colonial world and antiracism movements in the United States and Europe. The concept, a product of the Cold War division of the world...

..., what history (or history of what) can come to terms with so many con- tradictory materials? Or take the now-fabled ig5os, the subject of any number of recent literary and cultural “histories.”Were the “tranquillizedfifties,” as Robert Lowell called them, primarily the era of cold war...

...Doris Sommer Abstract During the US Cold War boom in area studies, scholars would sometimes innocently support homeland economic and political interests. In Latin America and elsewhere, the fact-finding focus often morphed into the look of love, as objects of investigation turned out to be more...

..., made literary analysis available for the agencies of US counterinsurgency, including the FBI and the CIA, as well as nongovernmental bodies like the Rockefeller Foundation (Epstein 1990 ; Maxwell 2015 ; Rubin 2012 ). Paul Nadal ( 2021 : 560) shows how the New Criticism was central to a “Cold War...

... of being at home in the world, the worlds involved were very different. Nicolai Volland’s Socialist Cosmopolitanism adds a later cosmopolitanism, this one led from Moscow and, initially at least, “personified by the towering figure of Stalin” (22), adhering to a Cold War hostility to European...

... fact: the only thing that would allow the former British colonies to constitute themselves as a nation-state would be an agreement to pursue an endless internal cold war in which individual, local, and national interests would always be in competition and the state’s main function would be to minimize...

... formerly charmed him.” But he is cold and “sulky.” Rachel finds that “with her beauty her reign had ended” and her successor appointed-the “person at Hexton.” And “since she found out that confounded Hexton business [says Castlewood later] she has not been the same woman.” The sequence...

...” of Japanese Americans in postwar discourses about U.S. racial pluralism, marriage and the middle-class family, and Cold War international relations. In this sense, An Absent Presence demonstrates both “how the centrality of internment in some discourses ‘screens’ it from view and how the dismissal...

... gure in terms of its role in mediating the alternating “presence” and “absence” of Japanese Americans in postwar discourses about U.S. racial pluralism, marriage and the middle-class family, and Cold War international relations. In this sense, An Absent Presence demonstrates both “how...

... gure in terms of its role in mediating the alternating “presence” and “absence” of Japanese Americans in postwar discourses about U.S. racial pluralism, marriage and the middle-class family, and Cold War international relations. In this sense, An Absent Presence demonstrates both “how...