Aesthetic Cold War (eBook)

Decolonization and Global Literature

Peter J. Kalliney (Autor)

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2022
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23064-1 (ISBN)

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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 the political police to influence writers. In response, many writers from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean-such as Chinua Achebe, Mulk Raj Anand, Eileen Chang, C.L.R. James, Alex La Guma, Doris Lessing, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Wole Soyinka-carved out a vibrant conceptual space of aesthetic nonalignment, imagining a different and freer future for their work.Kalliney looks at how the United States and the Soviet Union, in an effort to court writers, funded international conferences, arts centers, book and magazine publishing, literary prizes, and radio programming. International spy networks, however, subjected these same writers to surveillance and intimidation by tracking their movements, tapping their phones, reading their mail, and censoring or banning their work. Writers from the global south also suffered travel restrictions, deportations, imprisonment, and even death at the hands of government agents. Although conventional wisdom suggests that cold war pressures stunted the development of postcolonial literature, Kalliney's extensive archival research shows that evenly balanced superpower competition allowed savvy writers to accept patronage without pledging loyalty to specific political blocs. Likewise, writers exploited rivalries and the emerging discourse of human rights to contest the attentions of the political police.A revisionist account of superpower involvement in literature, The Aesthetic Cold War considers how politics shaped literary production in the twentieth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: acronym • Admiration • aesthetic theory • African Art • African literature • Afro-Asian (African Asian) • Aggravation (law) • aleksandr solzhenitsyn • Almaty • American imperialism • Anachronism • Anti-Communism • Anti-Imperialism • Antithesis • apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction • Archive • archivist • Arthur Koestler • attempt • author • authoritarianism • behalf • Bildungsroman • blacklisting • Blockchain • British Empire • British Library • Campaign for Nuclear disarmament • Censorship • Central Intelligence Agency • Chinua Achebe • Classical realism (international relations) • Claudia Jones • closet drama • Coercion • Cold War • Cold War espionage • Colonialism • Colonization • communism • Communist propaganda • comrade • Congress for Cultural Freedom • Copyright • Cosmopolitanism • Country risk • C. P. Snow • Criticism • critique • C. T. Hsia • Cultural Diplomacy • Cultural Imperialism • Cynicism (contemporary) • Cynicism (philosophy) • Darkness at Noon • Decolonising the Mind • Decolonization • Denunciation • Deportation • Dissident • Doris Lessing • Edition (book) • editorial • Edward Said • E. M. Forster • Essay • ethnic group • federal bureau of investigation • feudalism • Fiction • Franco Moretti • freedom of speech • harassment • Harold Pinter • Harry Ransom Center • Heinrich Mann • historical fiction • hostility • Hybridity • Ibadan • Ideology • Immigration and Naturalization Service • imperialism • Imprisonment • Indigenous peoples • Individualism • Informant • intellectual freedom • Intellectual history • Intellectual Property • International non-governmental organization • International Relations • intimidation • isolationism • jingoism • Kampala • Karl Marx • Kazakhstan • Kenneth Tynan • Law enforcement • Left Book Club • Literature • Manifesto • Marxism • MI5 • Militant (Trotskyist group) • Misery (novel) • modernism • narrative • Nationality • nation state • Nativism (politics) • Nazism • Négritude • Nigerian Civil War • Non-governmental organization • North America • Okot p'Bitek • On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences • Oppression • Parody • Persecution • Persuasion • philosophical fiction • Poetry • Political dissent • political movement • Political Party • Politics • Postmodernism • Power of arrest • prisoner of conscience • Proxy war • Publication • Publishing • Racial segregation • Racism • racism in the united states • Radicalism (historical) • radio producer • Radio Program • Republic of Letters • Romanticism • Salman Rushdie • Savage Inequalities • Science Fiction • Secret Intelligence Service • secret police • separatism • Socialist Realism • Soviet Union • Special Branch • spy fiction • Stalinism • Subversion • Susan Sontag • Tashkent • The Black Jacobins • The Counterfeiters (novel) • the god that failed • The Origins of Totalitarianism • The Other Hand • The Realist • The Wretched of the Earth • Totalitarianism • Transliteration • Trotskyism • United States Information Agency • USIS (company) • Utilitarianism • utterance • V. • Wai Chee Dimock • war • war effort • warfare • Western Europe • Wole Soyinka • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23064-1 / 0691230641
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23064-1 / 9780691230641