Watson Cold War Reckonings

Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9485-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Jini Kim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Romanizations ix

Introduction: Ruling Like a Foreigner:

Theorizing “Free World” Authoritarianism in the Asia-Pacific Cold War 1

Part I: Authorities of Alignment, 1955–1988

1 Writing Freedom from Bandung to PEN International 29

2 In the Shadow of Solzhenitsyn: Pramoedya Ananta Toer,
Kim Chi-ha, Ninotchka Rosca, and Cold War Critique 59

Part II: Genres of Cold War Reckoning, 1997–2017

3 Separate Futures: Other Times of Southeast Asian Decolonization 103

4 The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism 133

5 Killing Communists, Transitional Justice, and the Making of the Post–Cold War 155

Epilogue: Authoritarian Lessons for Neoliberal Times 183

Acknowledgments 199

Notes 203

Bibliography 253

Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Watson, Jini Kim
Jini Kim Watson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form and editor, with Gary Wilder, of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present.

Watson Jini Kim:
Jini Kim Watson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of the New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form and editor, with Gary Wilder, of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present.Jini Kim Watson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of the New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form and editor, with Gary Wilder, of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present.