This volume investigates the cultural sites where the global Cold War played out. It brings to view encounters that arose as writers, artists, filmmakers and intellectuals from or aligned with the Third World navigated the ideological and material constraints set by superpowers and regional powers.
This volume investigates the cultural sites where the global Cold War played out. It brings to view unpredictable encounters that arose as writers, artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals from or aligned with the Third World navigated the ideological and material constraints set by superpowers and emerging regional powers. Often these encounters generated communitas and solidarity, while at times they fed old and new conflicts. Pushing forward recent scholarship that tracks the Cold War in the Global South and draws on postcolonial approaches, our contributors use archival, secondary, and ethnographic sources to trace the afterlives and memories of key figures and to explore meetings that performed cultural diplomacy.
Our focus on sites of encounter or exchange underscores the situated, interpersonal, and embodied dimensions through which much of the cultural Cold War was experienced. While the global conflict divided citizens along ideological fault lines, it also linked people through circulating medianovels, film, posters, journals, and theatreand multinational conferences that brought artists, intellectuals, and political activists together. Such contacts introduced new axes of solidarity and hierarchies of exclusion. Examining these connections and disjunctures, this new and necessary mapping of the cultural Cold War highlights under-addressed locations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Introduction: "The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of
Contest and Communitas." Part 1: Literary and Cultural Conferences and
Meetings
1. "Cultural Bandung or Writerly Cold War? Revisiting the 1956 Asian
Writers Conference from an India-China Perspective."
2. "Mįrio Pinto de
Andrade, the Cultural Congress of Havana, and the Role of Culture in the
Global South."
3. "The Limits of Global Solidarity: Reading the 1968 Cultural
Congress of Havana through Andrew Salkeys Havana Journal."
4. "Sovereign
Alliances: Reading the Romance between Cuba and the Anglophone Caribbean in
the 1970s."
5. "We Understand Each Other: Writers from Eastern Europe and
the Global South at the International Writing Program (1970s)." Part 2:
Networks and Festivals of Visual Art and Cinema
6. Ra "Cinema in the Spirit
of Bandung: The Afro-Asian Film Festival Circuit, 19571964."
7. "From Dakar
to Diaspora: The Festival Mondial des Arts Nčgres as Nexus and Network."
8.
" (In Senegal) and (African Rhythms): Soviet
Documentaries on Senegal during the Cold War."
9. "Ousmane Sembčnes Borom
Sarret and the Circulation of Tractor Art: A Cold War Contestation of
Soviet Machine Iconography."
10. "Networks of South-South Solidarity and Cold
War Argentine Filmmaking." Part 3: Literature and Print Culture Itineraries
11. "War, Famine, and Newsprint: The Making of Soviet India, 19421945."
12.
"The Vatic Bargain: Solidarity and the Futures of the Philippine Cold War."
13. "Asias Refugee City: Hong Kong in the Cold War."
14. "Freedom and
Development in the Cultural Cold War."
15. "Raindrop on Dusty Ground:
Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, and the Cold War." Part 4: Spectacular Performances
16. "Choreographing Ideology: On the Ballet Adaptation of Peter Abrahams The
Path of Thunder in the Soviet Union."
17. "Its like inviting Pinochet to
the Fourth of July: The Chilean Ship Esmeralda and Intersecting Spectacles
in the Global Cold War."
18. "Reenacting Bodily Archives of the Cold War in
Lola Ariass Minefield."
19. Afterword
Kerry Bystrom is an Associate Professor of English and Human Rights and Associate Dean of the College at Bard College Berlin, A Liberal Arts University. Previous publications include Democracy at Home in South Africa: Family Fictions and Transitional Culture (2016).
Monica Popescu is an Associate Professor of English and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures at McGill University. She is the author of South African Literature Beyond the Cold War (which won the 2012 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities) and At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (2020).
Katherine Zien is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at McGill University. Ziens 2017 book is Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone. Her current project, supported by Canadas Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, explores militarization and performance in Latin Americas Cold War.
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