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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494574603321

Autore

Watson Jini Kim

Titolo

Cold War Reckonings : Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-8232-9485-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Disciplina

809.93581

Soggetti

Cold War in literature

Decolonization in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Romanizations -- Introduction: Ruling Like a Foreigner: Theorizing “Free World” Authoritarianism in the Asia- Pacific Cold War -- Part I. Authorities of Alignment, 1955–1988 -- Part II. Genres of Cold War Reckoning, 1997–2017 -- Epilogue: Authoritarian Lessons for Neoliberal Times -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.