1st Edition

Cold War Literature Writing the Global Conflict

Edited By Andrew Hammond Copyright 2006
284 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted – in Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua and elsewhere – in some twenty million dead. This collection... Read more

1. The Yellow Peril in the Cold War: Fu Manchu and the Manchurian Candidate  2. The Cold War Representation of the West in Russian Literature  3. "Is It Chaos? Or Is It a Building Site?": British Theatrical Responses to the Cold War and Its Aftermath  4. Beyond the Apocalypse of Closure: Nuclear Anxiety in Postmodern Literature of the United States  5. The Reds and the Blacks: The Historical Novel in the Soviet Union and Postcolonial Africa  6. Marxist Literary Resistance to the Cold War  7. Poetry, Politics and War: Representations of the American War in Vietnamese Poetry’  8. Remembering War and Revolution on the Maoist Stage  9. Revolution and Rejuvenation: Imagining Communist Cuba  10. An Anxious Triangulation: Cold War, Nationalism and Regional Resistance in East-Central European Literatures  11."Lifting Each Other off Our Knees": South African Women’s Poetry of Resistance, 1980-1989  12. Outwitting the Politburo: Politics and Poetry behind the Iron Curtain  13. The Anti-American: Graham Greene and the Cold War in the 1950s  14. The Excluded Middle: Intellectuals and the ‘Cold War’ in Latin America.  Bibliography.  Index

Biography

Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer of English Literature at the Swansea Institute, University of Wales.