1st Edition
Written Here, Published There How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
Edited By Friederike Kind-Kovács
Copyright 2015
520 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Written Here, Published There offers a new perspective on the role of underground literature in the Cold War and challenges us to recognize gaps in the Iron Curtain. The book identifies a transnational undertaking that reinforced détente, dialogue, and cultural transfer, and thus counterbalanced the persistent belief in Europe's irreversible division. It analyzes a cultural practice... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Tamizdat as Cold War Interaction, Chapter 1: Tamizdat on Trial Chapter 2: Tamizdat: A Transnational Community Chapter 3: Tamizdat Border Crossings Chapter 4: Tamizdat: The Writers' Right to Literature Epilogue: Beyond the Literary Cold War, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Friederike Kind-Kovács is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg and a postdoctoral fellow of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg/Munich).
