LEADER 04066nam 2200889 a 450 001 9910792022403321 005 20230126204324.0 010 $a0-8232-5436-4 010 $a0-8232-6099-2 010 $a0-8232-5437-2 010 $a0-8232-5435-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823254361 035 $a(CKB)2560000000101752 035 $a(EBL)1220017 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873197 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12323839 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873197 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10866145 035 $a(PQKB)11679892 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239820 035 $a(OCoLC)849927422 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28541 035 $a(DE-B1597)555005 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823254361 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1220017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239820 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10700259 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4703363 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4703363 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818131 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000101752 100 $a20130328d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe underside of politics$b[electronic resource] $eglobal fictions in the fog of the Cold War /$fSorin Radu Cucu 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (414 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5434-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWriting the Cold War: literature, democracy and the global polis -- Kafka and the Cold War fantasies of the invisible master -- The vicissitudes of popular sovereignty -- National security in the age of the global picture -- All power to the networks! -- Transnational American studies in the fog of the Cold War. 330 $aThis book argues that during the Cold War modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality?freedom in the West versus social justice in the East?and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to national security. Examining post- 1945 American and Eastern European interpretive novels in dialogue with each other and with postfoundational democratic theory, The Underside of Politics brings to light the ideas, forces, and circumstances that shattered modernity?s promises (such as secularization, autonomy, and rights) on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In this context, literary fictions by Kundera and Roth, Popescu and Coover, Ki? and DeLillo become global as they reveal the trials of popular sovereignty in the ?fog of the Cold War? and trace the elements around which its world discourse or global picture is constructed: the atom bomb, Stalinist show trials, anticommunist propaganda, totalitarian terror, secret military operations, and political targeting. 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCold War in literature 606 $aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics in literature 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zEurope 610 $aAmerican exceptionalism. 610 $aCold War. 610 $aWorld order. 610 $aglobalism. 610 $aliterature. 610 $apolitical theology. 610 $apopular sovereignty. 610 $aprophetic writing. 610 $athe contemporary. 610 $atotalitarianism. 610 $atransnational networks. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCold War in literature. 615 0$aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics in literature. 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 676 $a809.3/935809045 700 $aCucu$b Sorin Radu$01533815 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792022403321 996 $aThe underside of politics$93780945 997 $aUNINA