Cultural Cold War and the Global South : Sites of Contest and Communitas, Har...

by Monica Popescu

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Cultural Cold War and the Global South : Sites of Contest and Communitas, Hardcover by Bystrom, Kerry (EDT); Popescu, Monica (EDT); Zien, Katherine (EDT), ISBN 036767937X, ISBN-13 9780367679378, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 andmaterial 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 connect

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780367679378
• Condition: Fine

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