The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures Paperback / softback
Edited by Greg Barnhisel
Part of the Bloomsbury Handbooks series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:456 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:25/07/2024
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- ISBN:9781350304536
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:456 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:25/07/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350304536
