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- Title
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter Kalliney (review).
- Authors
Moody, Alys
- Abstract
"The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" by Peter Kalliney is a significant contribution to the understanding of the Cold War's impact on modernism and its relationship to global literature. Kalliney argues that the Cold War can be seen as an "aesthetic cold war," where the theories of literature and their formal consequences for individual authors were mobilized in the struggle. He challenges assumptions about the fixed relationship between politics, aesthetics, and funding sources, highlighting the importance of aesthetic independence for writers from the Third World. Kalliney explores how writers navigated state power, cultural diplomacy programs, surveillance, and suppression, and how these experiences led to new aesthetic innovations. While the book sheds new light on the period, it also raises questions about the political implications of aesthetic autonomy and the need for future scholarship to engage with non-English writings and the affirmative political vision of decolonization.
- Subjects
COLD War, 1945-1991; IMAGINATION; AESTHETICS; DECOLONIZATION; POLITICAL persecution; STATE power
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 4, p847
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2023.a925915