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The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify. A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940's to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigms

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Dutch literature --- Cold War in literature --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur

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With its accession to membership of the United Nations in the early 1970s, the Federal Republic of Germany found new scope for its foreign policy, and it was at a time when the global North-South divide became a focus point of international politics. This is the background to the articles in the second volume of the German Yearbook of Contemporary History, edited by two historians from the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History Munich – Berlin) – Agnes Bresselau von Bressensdorf and Elke Seefried – together with Christian Ostermann from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. The yearbook deals with West Germany during a time of Cold War confrontation, issues of human rights and threat from radical Islam. Selected contributions from the quarterly Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte offer detailed analyses of West German policies toward Cambodia, Chile, Iran and Afghanistan, and international experts provide a vivid commentary

Cold War. --- Cold War in literature. --- World politics --- Cold War --- History, Modern

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The field of Cold War studies has recently undergone a cultural turn. Scholars from many disciplines outside - but increasingly also from Otherin - diplomatic history have come to understand that, just as the Cold War was marked by a political and military competition, it was also characterised by a cultural one. As a result, it is now widely accepted that everyday culture was itself infused Other political and ideological messages. The Cold War was ubiquitous. In an attempt to comprehend this ...

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‘This ground-breaking, field-defining work will become a go-to volume for those looking for the impact of the Cold War on global literatures, a requisite starting point for further research and a testament to collaborative scholarship.’ - Steven Belletto, co-editor, Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (2019). ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature offers a comprehensive, wide-ranging and consistently high quality engagement with the full range of Cold War literatures, forming a one-stop handbook that will allow both neophytes and specialists to immediately grasp the key continuities and differences across national cultures.’ - Dr Daniel Grausam, Durham University, UK This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War. Eschewing the common focus on national cultures, the collection defines Cold War literature as an international current focused on the military and ideological conflicts of the age and characterised by styles and approaches that transcended national borders. Drawing on specialists from across the world, the volume analyses the period’s fiction, poetry, drama and autobiographical writings in three sections: dominant concerns (socialism, decolonisation, nuclearism, propaganda, censorship, espionage), common genres (postmodernism, socialism realism, dystopianism, migrant poetry, science fiction, testimonial writing) and regional cultures (Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and the Americas). In doing so, the volume forms a landmark contribution to Cold War literary studies which will appeal to all those working on literature of the 1945-1989 period, including specialists in comparative literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary literature and regional literature.

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