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  1. At penpoint
    African literatures, postcolonial studies, and the Cold War
    Author: Popescu, Monica
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    "AT PENPOINT aims to rewrite the story of postcolonial African literary and cultural production as one profoundly influenced by the Cold War. Monica Popescu shows how postcolonial studies of African literature have too often neglected the key... more

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    "AT PENPOINT aims to rewrite the story of postcolonial African literary and cultural production as one profoundly influenced by the Cold War. Monica Popescu shows how postcolonial studies of African literature have too often neglected the key institutional and aesthetic influence asserted by Soviet agents, and the resulting overlapping imperalisms African writers and creators worked within and contested during the second half of the twentieth century. Popescu's analysis attends to the myriad ways in which the tension between the United States and the USSR played out in the intellectual and aesthetic clashes among Third World intellectuals as well as on the battlefields of the proxy conflicts (specifically, the war in Angola) and experiments in African-style socialism that spread across the continent. Informed by several intellectual projects that have similarly brought postcolonial studies and the history of the Cold War together, Popescu traces a new cartography of cultural communication and meaning-making apart from a Western intellectual history and reinvigorates a leftist critique of imperialism too often occluded by postcolonial studies. Popescu uses her focus on the Cold War both to reassess familiar works from the era, such as Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born as well as to shine light on previously un- or under-studied publications made newly relevant, including Lotus, the journal of the Afro-Asian Writers' Alliance. The book is divided into two parts; the first providing the historical and theoretical framing for the latter's analysis. Chapter 2 in part I introduces Popescu's theory of "aesthetic world systems" in order to frame an alternative aesthetic system set up by the Soviet Union to sway intellectuals disenchanted with Western thought to align their work to the norms and aesthetic values of a Soviet ideology. Popescu illustrates this tension evident in African literature by analyzing both how African writers debated the definitions and functions of realism and modernism within Cold War parameters as well as how the aesthetic prerogatives of both the US and the USSR rendered entire corpuses of Third World texts illegible and invisible. The book's second part takes up more specific works of literature, expanding African literary history by rearticulating connections between texts and contexts.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781478008514; 1478008512; 9781478009405; 1478009403
    RVK Categories: EP 20135
    Series: Theory in forms
    Subjects: Literatur; Ost-West-Konflikt
    Other subjects: African literature / 20th century / History and criticism; African literature / Soviet influences; Cold War / Influence; Postcolonialism / Africa; Politics and literature / Africa; Literature and society / Africa; Africa / Intellectual life / 20th century; African literature; Intellectual life; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Postcolonialism; War / Influence; Africa; 1900-1999; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: x, 258 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Pens and guns : literary autonomy, artistic commitment and secret sponsorships -- Aesthetic world-systems : mythologies of modernism and realism -- Creating futures, producing theory : strike, revolution and the morning after -- The hot Cold War : rewriting the global conflict through southern Africa -- Conclusion. From postcolonial to world literature studies : the continued relevance of the Cold War
  2. At penpoint
    African literatures, postcolonial studies, and the Cold War
    Author: Popescu, Monica
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    "AT PENPOINT aims to rewrite the story of postcolonial African literary and cultural production as one profoundly influenced by the Cold War. Monica Popescu shows how postcolonial studies of African literature have too often neglected the key... more

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "AT PENPOINT aims to rewrite the story of postcolonial African literary and cultural production as one profoundly influenced by the Cold War. Monica Popescu shows how postcolonial studies of African literature have too often neglected the key institutional and aesthetic influence asserted by Soviet agents, and the resulting overlapping imperalisms African writers and creators worked within and contested during the second half of the twentieth century. Popescu's analysis attends to the myriad ways in which the tension between the United States and the USSR played out in the intellectual and aesthetic clashes among Third World intellectuals as well as on the battlefields of the proxy conflicts (specifically, the war in Angola) and experiments in African-style socialism that spread across the continent. Informed by several intellectual projects that have similarly brought postcolonial studies and the history of the Cold War together, Popescu traces a new cartography of cultural communication and meaning-making apart from a Western intellectual history and reinvigorates a leftist critique of imperialism too often occluded by postcolonial studies. Popescu uses her focus on the Cold War both to reassess familiar works from the era, such as Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born as well as to shine light on previously un- or under-studied publications made newly relevant, including Lotus, the journal of the Afro-Asian Writers' Alliance. The book is divided into two parts; the first providing the historical and theoretical framing for the latter's analysis. Chapter 2 in part I introduces Popescu's theory of "aesthetic world systems" in order to frame an alternative aesthetic system set up by the Soviet Union to sway intellectuals disenchanted with Western thought to align their work to the norms and aesthetic values of a Soviet ideology. Popescu illustrates this tension evident in African literature by analyzing both how African writers debated the definitions and functions of realism and modernism within Cold War parameters as well as how the aesthetic prerogatives of both the US and the USSR rendered entire corpuses of Third World texts illegible and invisible. The book's second part takes up more specific works of literature, expanding African literary history by rearticulating connections between texts and contexts.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781478008514; 1478008512; 9781478009405; 1478009403
    RVK Categories: EP 20135
    Series: Theory in forms
    Subjects: Literatur; Ost-West-Konflikt
    Other subjects: African literature / 20th century / History and criticism; African literature / Soviet influences; Cold War / Influence; Postcolonialism / Africa; Politics and literature / Africa; Literature and society / Africa; Africa / Intellectual life / 20th century; African literature; Intellectual life; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Postcolonialism; War / Influence; Africa; 1900-1999; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: x, 258 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Pens and guns : literary autonomy, artistic commitment and secret sponsorships -- Aesthetic world-systems : mythologies of modernism and realism -- Creating futures, producing theory : strike, revolution and the morning after -- The hot Cold War : rewriting the global conflict through southern Africa -- Conclusion. From postcolonial to world literature studies : the continued relevance of the Cold War