Cold war reckonings : authoritarianism and the genres of decolonization /

"How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism to independent nation-states. Assembling a body of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Watson, Jini Kim (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Decolonization in literature. Cold War in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. Cold War (1945-1989) in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : ruling like a foreigner : theorizing "Free World" authoritarianism in the Asia-Pacific Cold War
Writing freedom from Bandung to PEN International
In the shadow of Solzhenitsyn : Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Kim Chi-ha, Ninotchka Rosca, and Cold War critique
Separate futures : other times of Southeast Asian decolonization
The wrong side of history : anachronism and authoritarianism
Killing communists, transitional justice, and the making of the post-Cold War
Epilogue : authoritarian lessons for neoliberal times.