The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature [Hardcover]

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 periods 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.

1. Introduction; Andrew Hammond.- 2. Freedom and Fabrication: Propaganda and Novels in the Cultural Cold War; Catherine Turner.- 3. Print Censorship and the Cultural Cold War: Books in a Bounded World; Nicole Moore.- 4.Our Embattled Humanity: Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age; Andrew Hammond.- 5. Inter/Transnational Feminist Literature of the Cold War; Sonita Sarker.- 6. Reading Cold War Queer Literature Today: Recognition beyond LGBTQ Identity Politics; Eric Keenaghan.- 7. Beyond Containment: The Left-Wing Movement in Literature, 1945-1989; Andrew Hammond.- 8. The Politics of Vulnerabill38