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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

Barnhisel, Greg

Paperback

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

Literary CriticismOther Wars

ISBN10: 1350304530
ISBN13: 9781350304536
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 25 2024
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.78
Height: 0.92 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently.

Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.

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