Overview
- Offers the first comprehensive guide to global Cold War literatures
- Analyses a wide range of thematic, stylistic and regional patterns in Cold War writing
- Draws on specialists in national and regional literatures from around the world
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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 period’s 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.
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Themes
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Genres
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Andrew Hammond is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton. His publications include Cold War Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990 (2017), The Novel and Europe: Imagining the Continent in Post-1945 Fiction (edited, 2016), British Fiction and the Cold War (2013) and British Literature and the Balkans: Themes and Contexts (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature
Editors: Andrew Hammond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38972-7Published: 05 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38973-4Published: 04 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 831
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Modern History, Global/International Culture