In this Book
- Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: New American Canon
summary
Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict between U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a spotlight on writers from the war’s numerous fronts and applying lenses of race, gender, and decolonization, the essayists present several new angles from which to view the tense global showdown that lasted roughly a half-century. Ultimately, they reframe the Cold War not merely as a divide between the Soviet Union and the United States, but between nations rich and poor, and mostly white and mostly not. By emphasizing the global dimensions of the Cold War, this innovative collection reveals emergent forms of post-WWII empire that continue to shape our world today, thereby raising the question of whether the Cold War has ever fully ended.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- PART One: Neocolonialism and the Global South Imaginary
- PART TWO: Solidarities: US Racial Politics and the Global Cold War
- PART THREE: Realignments: The Global Cold War and Changing Forms of Empire
- US Cultural Attachés and the Cold War
- pp. 171-186
- Contributors
- pp. 221-224
- Bibliography
- pp. 265-284
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609386320
Related ISBN(s)
9781609386313
MARC Record
OCLC
1076457803
Pages
314
Launched on MUSE
2019-09-12
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2019