Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
ISBN: 9781609386320
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Iowa Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Literature and transnationalism; Cold War in literature.; American literature;

Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict between U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a spotlight on writers from the war's numerous fronts and applying lenses of race, gender, and decolonization, the essayists present several new angles from which to view the tense global showdown that lasted roughly a half-century. Ultimately, they reframe the Cold War not merely as a divide between the Soviet Union and the United States, but between nations rich and poor, and mostly white and mostly not. By emphasizing the global dimensions of the Cold War, this innovative collection reveals emergent forms of post-WWII empire that continue to shape our world today, thereby raising the question of whether the Cold War has ever fully ended.

Steven Belletto is professor of English at Lafayette College. He is the author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives .

Joseph Keith is associate professor and chair of English at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the author of Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship: 1945-1960 .

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