Description: Cold War Reckonings : Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization, Hardcover by Watson, Jini Kim, ISBN 082329482X, ISBN-13 9780823294824, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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 transpacific cultural works that speak to this historical conjuncture, Jini Kim Watson reveals autocracy to be not a deficient form of liberal democracy, but rather the result of Cold War entanglements with decolonization.
Focusing on East and Southeast Asia, th scrutinizes cultural texts ranging from dissident poetry, fiction, and writers’ conference proceedings of the Cold War period, to more recent literature, graphic novels, and films that retrospectively look back to these decades with a critical eye. Paying particular attention to anti-communist repression and state infrastructures of violence, th provides a richaccount of several .–allied Cold War regimes in the Asia Pacific, including the South Korean military dictatorship, Marcos’ rule in the Philippines, illiberal Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew, and Suharto’s Indonesia.
Watson’s book argues that the cultural forms and narrative techniques that emerged from the Cold War-decolonizing matrix offer new ways of comprehending these histories and connecting them to our present. Th advances our understanding of the global reverberations of the Cold War and its enduring influence on cultural and political formations in the Asia Pacific.
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Book Title: Cold War Reckonings : Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decoloni
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Cold War Reckonings : Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Subject: Comparative Literature, Modern / 20th Century
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Jini Kim Watson
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
