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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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