"Broadly speaking, book diplomacy covers the use of books to achieve certain objectives related to the foreign policy interests of a given country, usually involving state-private partnerships of varying degrees. In this volume, scholars from different disciplines examine in detail how books functioned as tools of "soft power" and cultural diplomacy during the cultural Cold War. This study also introduces a 10-point typology to examine the many forms and practices of Cold War book diplomacy and the diversity of objectives and outcomes that they involved. Looking beyond the Cold War, this volume stresses the continuing importance of books as a distinct form of material culture used to convey information around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
This volume is a study of how and why book diplomacy was used in the cultural Cold War. Interdisciplinary in its approach, it defines book diplomacy as a field. Its case studies explore the dynamics of production, sponsorship, translation, distribution, and reception of books as tools of soft power.
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"While the last twenty years have seen a number of important studies of how books were used as tools of cultural diplomacy in the Cold War, this volume brings a heretofore unprecedented geographical breadth to the scholarship on this topic. Ranging from Pakistan to Italy, from Greece to China, the nations examined by the scholars in this collection go far beyond the US, UK, USSR, and France, which have been the subjects of most of the research to date. The contributions are of a uniformly high level of scholarship and the organization makes good sense. The introductory literature review of the existing English language scholarship on the topic is the best overview of the field Im aware of. Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Book Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War and beyond: An Introduction
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam and Giles Scott-Smith
Part 1 Book Diplomacy and Power in the International System
1 Internationalism Meets the Cold War: Interwar Book Networks as Challenge to
State Power
Steven W. Witt
2 Professor Pearson Goes to Washington: Norman Holmes Pearson, U.S.
Literature, and the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy
Deborah Cohn
3 Literature as a Weapon? Soviet Book Diplomacy, Soviet, and U.S. Literature
in the Cultural Cold War between 1945 and 1964
Alexander Erokhin
Part 2 Publishers and Literary Agents
4 Bringing Books to France: Literary Agents in Cold War Transnational
Networks (1940s1960s)
Cécile Cottenet
5 The Literary Agent as Book Diplomat: Erich Linders Agency in the
Transnational Socialization of Tamizdat
Ilaria Sicari
6 Serving Two Masters: Cold War Book Diplomacy in 1960s Greece
Christos Mais
Part 3 Translation and the Role of Translators
7 Translation as a Tool of Soft Power: A Study of Franklin Book Programs
Urdu Books in Pakistan
Hafiz Abid Masood and Tahoor Ali
8 Translating for Children during the Cold War: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
in Francos Spain and Chairman Maos China
Julia Lin Thompson
9 Publishing Translations from Russian in Italy during the Cold War
Mila Milani
Part 4 Censorship, Propaganda and Informal Diplomacy
10 Fighting with Words: The Role of Discourses in the Literary Field during
the Cultural Cold War in the GDR
Hanna Blum
11 Bellman Books: Selling a Favorable Image Abroad
Musa Igrek
12 Scientific American in the USSR: The Semi-Diplomatic Spaces of
Soviet-American Publishing Relations, 19801984
Rósa Magnśsdóttir and Birgitte Beck Pristed
Index
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Ph.D. (2012), Rovira i Virgili University, is an independent scholar. His research covers book diplomacy, the intellectual history of modern Iran, and translation studies.
Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History at Leiden University. His research covers a broad range of fields around public/cultural diplomacy and citizen diplomats.
