Cold War assemblages : decolonization to digital /

This book bridges the gap between the simultaneously unfolding histories of postcoloniality and the forty-five-year ideological and geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the U.S.S.R. Not only did the superpowers rely upon the decolonizing world to further imperial agendas, but the postc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shringarpure, Bhakti (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Routledge studies in cultures of the global Cold War.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Cold War assemblages
  • Epistemic bifurcations: Fanon, Gandhi, and the failure of theory
  • Dying before their time: Lumumba, Cabral, and Sankara
  • Cold War disciplinarity : Postcolonial studies and its discontents
  • The Cold War paradigm: A trajectory of literary canons
  • Epilogue: The postcolony is a Cold War ruin.