The Underside of Politics : Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War /
This text argues that, during the Cold War, modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality - freedom in the West versus social justice in the East - and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to national security.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013
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Édition: | First edition. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : Writing the Cold War : literature, democracy and the global polis
- Kafka and the Cold War : fantasies of the invisible master
- The vicissitudes of popular sovereignty
- National security in the age of the global picture
- All power to the networks!
- Concluding remarks : Transnational American studies in the fog of the Cold War.