Written here, published there : how underground literature crossed the Iron Curtain / Friederike Kind-Kovács.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kind-Kovács, Friederike, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underground literature--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Underground literature.

Russian literature--Publishing--Foreign countries--History--20th century.

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (522 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, New York : Central European University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written Here, Published There offers a new perspective on the role of underground literature in the Cold War and challenges us to recognize gaps in the Iron Curtain. The book identifies a transnational undertaking that reinforced détente, dialogue, and cultural transfer, and thus counterbalanced the persistent belief in Europe's irreversible division. It analyzes a cultural practice that attracted extensive attention during the Cold War but has largely been ignored in recent scholarship: tamizdat, or the unauthorized migration of underground literature across the Iron Curtain. Through this cultural practice, I offer a new reading of Cold War Europe's history . Investigating the transfer of underground literature from the 'Other Europe' to Western Europe, the United States, and back illuminates the intertwined fabrics of Cold War literary cultures. Perceiving tamizdat as both a literary and a social phenomenon, the book focuses on how individuals participated in this border-crossing activity and used secretive channels to guarantee the free flow of literature.

Contents:

Tamizdat in its infancy

Tamizdat as community

Tamizdat as border crosser

Tamizdat as human right and discourse.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72395-0

963-386-023-7

9781003723950

OCLC:

898005171