The Bloomsbury handbook to cold war literary cultures / edited by Greg Barnhisel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnhisel, Greg, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2022]

Summary:

Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently. Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350191730

1350191736

9781350191723

1350191728