General Information

Language

English.

Published

New York : Routledge, 2021.

Physical Description

xvii, 354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series

Routledge studies in cultures of the global Cold War

Contributors

Contributor

Bystrom, Kerry, 1977- (editor.)

Popescu, Monica, 1973- (editor.)

Zien, Katherine A., 1981- (editor.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"This volume investigates the cultural sites where the global Cold War played out. It brings to view unpredictable encounters that arose as writers, artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals from or aligned with the Third World navigated the ideological and material constraints set by superpowers and emerging regional powers. Often these encounters generated communitas and solidarity, while at times they fed old and new conflicts. Pushing forward recent scholarship that tracks the Cold War in the Global South and draws on postcolonial approaches, our contributors use archival, secondary, and ethnographic sources to trace the afterlives and memories of key figures and to explore meetings that performed cultural diplomacy. Our focus on sites of encounter or exchange underscores the situated, interpersonal, and embodied dimensions through which much of the cultural Cold War was experienced. While the global conflict divided citizens along ideological fault lines, it also linked people through circulating media-novels, film, posters, journals, and theatre-and multinational conferences that brought artists, intellectuals, and political activists together. Such contacts introduced new axes of solidarity and hierarchies of exclusion. Examining these connections and disjunctures, this new and necessary mapping of the cultural Cold War highlights under-addressed locations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America"--

Subjects

Subject

Cold War > Congresses.

Cultural diplomacy > Developing countries > History > 20th century.

Cold War in mass media.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Kerry Bystrom, Monica Popescu, Katherine Zien.

Content

Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas / Kerry Bystrom, Monica Popescu, and Katherine Zien -- Part 1: Literary and Cultural Conferences and Meetings. 1. Cultural Bandung or Writerly Cold War? Revisiting the 1956 Asian Writers' Conference from an India-China Perspective / Yan Jia -- 2. Mario Pinto de Andrade, the Cultural Congress of Havana, and the Role of Culture in the Global South / Lanie Millar -- 3. The Limits of Global Solidarity: Reading the 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana through Andrew Salkey's Havana Journal/ Anne Garland Mahler -- 4. Sovereign Alliances: Reading the Romance between Cuba and the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1970s / Amanda T. Perry -- 5. 'We Understand Each Other': Writers from Eastern Europe and the Global South at the International Writing Program (1970s) / Szabolcs László -- Part 2. Networks and Festivals of Visual Art and Cinema. 6. Cinema in the Spirit of Bandung: The Afro-Asian Film Festival Circuit, 1957-1964 / Elena Razlogova -- 7. From Dakar to Diaspora: The Festival Mondial des Arts Negres as Nexus and Network / Joseph L. Underwood -- 8. V Senegale (In Senegal) and Rimmy Afriki (African Rhythms): Soviet Documentaries on Senegal during the Cold War / Gesine Drews-Sylla -- 9. Ousmane Sembene's Borom Sarret and the Circulation of 'Tractor Art': A Cold War Contestation of Soviet Machine Iconography / Julie-Francoise Tolliver -- 10. Networks of South-South Solidarity and Cold War Argentine Filmmaking / Jessica Stites Mor -- Part 3: Literature and Print Culture Itineraries. 11. War, Famine, and Newsprint: The Making of Soviet India, 1942-1945 / Vikrant Dadawala -- 12. The Vatic Bargain: Solidarity and the Futures of the Philippine Cold War / Emily Foister -- 13. Asia's Refugee City: Hong Kong in the Cold War / Cho-Kiu Li -- 14. Freedom and Development in the Cultural Cold War/ Eleni Coundouriotis -- 15. Raindrop on Dusty Ground: Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, and the Cold War / Bhakti Shringarpure -- Part 4: Spectacular Performances. 16. Choreographing Ideology: On the Ballet Adaptation of Peter Abrahams' The Path of Thunder in the Soviet Union / Anton Lahaie, Samuel Barnai, and Louise Bethlehem -- 17. 'It's like inviting Pinochet to the Fourth of July': The Chilean Ship Esmeralda and Intersecting Spectacles in the Global Cold War / Michelle Carmody -- 18. Reenacting Bodily Archives of the Cold War in Lola Arias's Minefield / Brenda Werth -- Afterword / Juan Orrantia.

ISBN

9780367679378

9780367679385

9781003133438

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	909.825 BYS		Reference	-

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