Archives of Authority : Empire, Culture, and the Cold War

Andrew N Rubin

ISBN 10: 0691154155 / ISBN 13: 9780691154152

Edité par Princeton University Press Jul 2012, 2012

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Neuware - 'This is a brilliant and highly original investigation of how Cold War politics shaped the emergence of world literature and new forms of cultural authority, literary consecration, and political surveillance in the aftermath of the Second World War. Eye-opening and provocative, Archives of Authority is indispensable reading for all serious scholars of world literature, Cold War cultural politics, and globalization.'--Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Archives of Authority : Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press Jul 2012
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691154155
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691154152
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 164 H x 30 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 164 millimètres de hauteur par 30 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 439 grammes

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Synopsis

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Andrew Rubin argues that this transfer reshaped the postwar literary space and he shows how, during this time, new and efficient modes of cultural transmission, replication, and travel--such as radio and rapidly and globally circulated journals--completely transformed the position occupied by the postwar writer and the role of world literature.

Rubin demonstrates that the nearly instantaneous translation of texts by George Orwell, Thomas Mann, W. H. Auden, Richard Wright, Mary McCarthy, and Albert Camus, among others, into interrelated journals that were sponsored by organizations such as the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom and circulated around the world effectively reshaped writers, critics, and intellectuals into easily recognizable, transnational figures. Their work formed a new canon of world literature that was celebrated in the United States and supposedly represented the best of contemporary thought, while less politically attractive authors were ignored or even demonized. This championing and demonizing of writers occurred in the name of anti-Communism--the new, transatlantic "civilizing mission" through which postwar cultural and literary authority emerged.

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Andrew N. Rubin is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the coeditor of Adorno: A Critical Reader and The Edward Said Reader.