Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World: Theatre, Film, Literature and Things book cover

1st Edition

Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World Theatre, Film, Literature and Things

Edited By Christopher B. Balme Copyright 2024
264 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world. The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around... Read more

1. Introduction

Christopher B. Balme

2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and Realism　

Monica Popescu

Part I: Networks and Institutions

3. Cold War Mobilities: Eastern European Theatre Going Global

Viviana Iacob

4. Theatre for Influence: American Cultural and Philanthropic Missions in West Africa During the Early Cold War

Gideon Ime Morison

Part II : Cultural Diplomacy

5. "Propaganda Was Almost Nil"?: Soviet Books and Publishing in India in the 1960s

Severyan Dyakonov

6. Indo-Soviet Circus Exchanges During the Cold War: State Propaganda or a People’s Art Form?

Aastha Gandhi

Part III: Artists and Agency

7. Narratives of Education and Migration: From La Noire de… (1966) to Octobre (1993)

Gesine Drews-Sylla

8. Brecht as a Tool for Cultural Development: East German ITI Events for Theatre Artists from the "Third World"

Rebecca Sturm

9. "Clean Tablets to Write Upon": Ibsen’s Brand in Riga and Moscow in the 1970s

Vita Matiss

Part IV: Cultures of Things

10. Soviet Books, Geopolitical Imagination and Eclectic Solidarities in India

Sudha Rajagopalan

11. National Theatres in Africa Between Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage

Christopher B. Balme

Biography

Christopher B. Balme is professor of Theatre Studies and a director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global:disconnect at LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.

Add to Cart