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.

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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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).

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1. Introduction; Andrew Hammond.- 2. Freedom and Fabrication: Propaganda and Novels in the Cultural Cold War; Catherine Turner .- 3. Print Censorship and the Cultural Cold War: Books in a Bounded World; Nicole Moore .- 4.'Our Embattled Humanity': Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age; Andrew Hammond .- 5. Inter/Transnational Feminist Literature of the Cold War; Sonita Sarker.- 6. Reading Cold War Queer Literature Today: Recognition beyond LGBTQ Identity Politics; Eric Keenaghan.- 7. Beyond Containment: The Left-Wing Movement in Literature, 1945-1989; Andrew Hammond.- 8. The Politics of Vulnerability: Nuclear Peril and the Global Imagination; Daniel Cordle.- 9. The Battle of Conferences: Cultural Decolonisation and Global Cold War; Monica Popescu.- 10. The Bandung Era, Non-Alignment and the Third-Way Literary Imagination; Christopher J. Lee and Anne Garland Mahler .- 11. The Spread of Socialist Realism: Soviet and Chinese Developments; Thomas Lahusen and Elizabeth McGuire. - 12. Magical Realism in the Context of Cold War Cultural Interventions; Ignacio López-Calvo and Nicholas Birns.- 13. Monstrous Epistemology: Paranoia and Postmodernism across the Iron Curtain; Elana Gomel.- 14. Divided Worlds: The Political Interventions of Science Fiction; Andrew Hammond and David Seed.- 15. Plenty of Blame to Spread Around: Dystopia(nism) and the Cold War; Derek C. Maus.- 16. World Citizens: Espionage Literature in the Cold War; Allan Hepburn.- 17. Speaking Trauma and History: The Collective Voice of Testimonial Literature; Meg Jensen.- 18. Cold War Poetry and Migrant Writing; Adam Piette.- 19. Dissent and ItsDiscontents in Cold War Poetry; Jacob Edmond.- 20. Theatre and Drama in the Hot Zones of the Cold War: Selected Case Studies; Katherine Zien.- 21. Cold War Literature of North America; Art Redding.- 22. Islands between Worlds: Caribbean Cold War Literatures; Christopher T. Bonner.- 23. Uneven Battles: Central American Cold War Literature; Sophie Esch.- 24. An Ideological Pendulum: South American Literary Interventions in Cold War Politics; Juan G. Ramos.- 25. The Soviet Cold War Literary Imagination; Evgeny Dobrenko and Vladimir Dobrenko.- 26. Through the Iron Curtain: The Geopolitics of Writing in Eastern Europe; Dorota Koodziejczyk and Mirja Lecke.- 27. Western European Literature and the East-West Conflict; Andrew Hammond.- 28. Gwebede's Wars: Anglophone Black Novels in Southern Africa 1965-1989; Ranka Primorac and Stephen Chan.- 29. Writing Africa under the Cold War: Arrested Decolonisation and Geopolitical Integration; Madhu Krishnan.- 30. Cold War Literature of the Middle East and North Africa; miriam cooke.- 31. Cold War Literature in East Asia; Ann Sherif.- 32. Cold War Violence, Nationalism and Structures of Feeling in the Literatures of Southeast Asia; Tony Day.- 33. 'No Ordinary Sun': Indigenous Pacific Cold War Literature; Michelle Keown.- 34. The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth; Elizabeth Leane.