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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cucu, Sorin Radu
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
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.