American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment

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231 index Abstract Expressionism, 39, 66, 69 Acheson, Dean, 138, 156 adoption, 8 Afghanistan, 103 Agent Orange, 197 Algeria, 99, 121 Allport, Gordon W., 60 Alperovitz, Gar, 206n5 Amis, Martin, 130n23 Amos, James E., 18–20 Anderson, Jack, 37 anticolonialism, 27, 86 anticommunism, 17–25, 61, 86, 146– 49, 152, 154, 156, 171, 179, 183n3, 184n13, 184n14, 187, 201 antitotalitarianism, 11, 165–67, 171, 175, 178, 179, 180, 182, 184n13 Appadurai, Arjun, 144 Apter, Emily, 113 area studies, 109–10 Arendt, Hannah, 163, 164–66, 168, 175–77, 184n7 artificial intelligence, 63 Ashbery, John, 38, 43, 48, 55n7, 56n20 Asian-American literature, 7 Atlantic, 152 Auden, W. H., 38, 47, 48, 52 Ausdruckstanz (expressionist dance), 44, 49 autopoiesis, 61, 62, 64, 68, 69, 72–75, 77 Avatar, 82n69 Balanchine, George, 37–38, 40, 42, 45– 47, 48–51, 56n13, 58n34 Baldwin, Frank, 158n13 Baldwin, James, 30, 43 ballet, 9, 40, 43, 44–52. See also Edwin Denby Ballet, 47 Baraka, Amiri, 30 Barber, Samuel, 40 Barrad, Julia, 198 Barth, John, 5 Bateson, Gregory, 59, 61–65, 72, 74–77, 78n11; understanding of ecology, 75–77 Bay of Pigs invasion, 190, 203 Beat generation, 30, 165, 176 Becker, Patti Clayton, 78n7 Belgrad, Daniel, 78n8 Belletto, Steven, 14n13 Benedict, Ruth, 61 Benjamin, Bret, 105n20 Bergson, Henri, 66 Berlant, Lauren, 122–23, 125, 128 Berlin: airlife, 187; Wall, 4, 140, 187, 190, 202 Berrigan, Ted, 37, 47 Bigelow, Julian, 63 biopolitics, 11, 163, 166, 172, 182, 184n11 Black Panthers, 180 Black Power, 25, 75, 165, 178 Blair, John, 77n3 Bloom, Harold, 199 Boland Amendment, 203 Bonesteel, Charles, 145 Borlaug, Norman, 88 Bourdet, Claude, 137 Bowles, Paul, 8, 45, 46 Boyer, Paul, 189 232 i nde x Brand, Stewart, 76–77 Brehm, John, 55n5 Bretton Woods conference, 88, 105n20 Breuer, William B., 159n27 Briggs, John, 79n31 Brown, Christopher M., 198 Brown, Frank London, 30 Brown, Julia Clarence, 19 Brunner, Edward, 13n13 Buber, Martin, 76, 82n66 Buchanan, Patrick, 182 Buckle, Richard, 47 Bureau of African Affairs, 27 Bush, George W., 9, 182–83, 184n11 Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, 48 C Magazine, 37 Cage, John, 40, 59, 64–69, 72, 73, 79n28; role of composer in, 64; role of emotion in, 65; in relation to chaos theory, 68 Callicott, J. Baird, 78n15 Cameron, James, 82n69 Camus, Albert, 155, 159n29 Cannon, Lou, 196 Cantril, Hadley, 61 Caprio, Mark E., 136 Carson, Rachel, 94, 104n12 Caruth, Cathy, 129n7 Casanova, Pascale, 145 Castro, Fidel, 86, 203 Catch-22, 190 Caute, David, 14n13, 32n15 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1, 9, 20, 28, 106n22, 121, 125, 136 Cerf, Bennet, 24 Césaire, Aimé, 176–77 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 95 Chambers, Whittaker, 201 Chapman, Anna, 2 Chen, Kuan-Hsing, 158n21 Chernobyl, 202 Childress, Alice, 27 China, 43, 59, 89, 154, 156, 170, 188 Choy, Bong-Youn, 159n29 Clancy, Tom, 1 Clark, Suzanne, 13n13 Cleaver, Eldridge, 178–79 closet concept, 40–41, 54 Coale, Samuel Chase, 130n16 CoEvolution Quarterly, 77 Cohn, Roy, 23 colonialism, 7, 10, 88, 89, 94, 97, 106n22, 113, 165–68, 176–77, 184n7, 184n9, 189, 197, 205 Communism, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 18–30, 60–61, 86, 89, 107n31, 136, 138, 147– 50, 154–56, 158n21, 167, 168–74, 179, 196–97; centralization of power in, 59–60; as racial parasite, 168–73 Conrad, Joseph, 87, 100, 111, 117, 125, 129n9 containment: culture of, 4–8, 9–12, 14n22, 31, 39, 54, 113–14, 163, 165, 169, 179; foreign policy of, 4, 139, 154–56, 163, 170, 173, 182, 185n16, 187, 189 Contras, 202–04 Cook, Fred, 24 Coomaraswamy, Ananda, 66 Copland, Aaron, 45–46 Cordle, Daniel, 13n13 Corkin, Stanley, 106n29, 107n35, 108n38 Cornis-Pope, Marcel, 13n13 counterintelligence, 137, 141–43, 145– 48, 151, 156–57, 159n26, 160n31, 161n44 Crane, Hart, 38, 40 Cruse, Harold, 30 Culler, Jonathan, 55n8 Culleton, Claire A., 24, 33n38 cultural studies, 109 i nde x 233 Cumings, Bruce, 140–41, 145, 154–57, 162n58 Cummings, William, 18–19 Cunningham, David, 159n26 Cunningham, Merce, 38, 40 cybernetics, 10, 62–63, 75, 78n14 Dalcroze, Emile Jacques, 44 dance, 37–52 Davidson, Michael, 13n13 Davidson, Sara, 131n36 de Kooning, Elaine, 38, 45 de Kooning, Willem, 38, 45, 46 de Man, Paul, 58n44 Deleuze, Gilles, 152, 161n38 DeLillo, Don, 2, 87, 112 democracy, 10, 22, 60–62, 77, 103, 113, 152, 164, 174, 176, 189 Denby, Edwin, 9, 37–54; as challenge to containment culture paradigm, 39; biography of, 43–48; dance criticism of...