Literary Cold War 1945 To Vietnam

Author : Adam Piette
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748635283

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Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam by Adam Piette Pdf

This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US. The Literary Cold War examines writers working at the hazy borders between aesthetic project and political allegory, with specific attention being paid to Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene as Cold War writers. The book looks at the special relationship as a form of paranoid plotline governing key Anglo-American texts from Storm Jameson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as well as examining the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer caught up in the sacrificial triangles structuring cold war fantasy. The book aims to consolidate and define a new emergent field in literary studies, the literary Cold War, following the lead of prominent historians of the period.

Author : Michael H. Hunt
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429930680

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Lyndon Johnson's War by Michael H. Hunt Pdf

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible--if no less troubling--the tangled origins of the war.

Author : Ilya V. Gaiduk
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0804747121

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Confronting Vietnam by Ilya V. Gaiduk Pdf

Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict. The author finds that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to disrupt détente. The Russians had high hopes that the Geneva accords would bring years of peace in the region. Gradually disillusioned, they tried to strengthen North Vietnam, but would not support unification of North and South. By the early 1960s, however, they felt obliged to counter the American embrace of an aggressively anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and the hostility of its former ally, the People's Republic of China. Finally, Moscow decided to disengage from Vietnam, disappointed that its efforts to avert an international crisis there had failed.

Author : David G. Marr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520274150

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Vietnam by David G. Marr Pdf

"Marr's previous book, Vietnam 1945, ends on 2 September when big crowds gathered in Hanoi and Saigon to celebrate Vietnamese independence. This book focuses on the next sixteen months, when Vietnam's future course was determined. It recreates in vivid detail what it was like to be there in these dramatic postcolonial moments as the Japanese, British and Americans faded from view, the DRV began to function and establish an army, the French maneuvered to restore colonialism, but the beginnings of the Cold War swept Vietnam into its orbit with the Chinese Red Army victories and Chinese arms on the border. As with his other books Marr pioneers the history of war from the Vietnamese perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Alan R. Beals,Paul M. Kattenburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138539384

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Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy by Alan R. Beals,Paul M. Kattenburg Pdf

This study of ten fateful decisions made on Indochina between 1961-75 highlights the ascent of the civilian militarists and of strategy over diplomacy in United States policymaking and reveals the inexorably interlinked and escalating character of the decisions and the central purpose of American presidents: not to have to face the expected domestic political consequences of defeat in Indochina. As a result, we were led into a prolonged stalemate in which "acting" and the management of programs became a more important preoccupation than thinking about our purposes and values, in which analysis become wholly subjective and therefore defective, and in which decision-making occurred in a closed system which did not allow for divergent inputs.

Author : Brenda M. Boyle,Jeehyun Lim
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813579962

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Looking Back on the Vietnam War by Brenda M. Boyle,Jeehyun Lim Pdf

More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam. Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the war’s psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange. By putting these pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies. Though they come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to film studies, the contributors are united in their commitment to original research. Whether exploring rare archives or engaging in extensive interviews, they voice perspectives that have been excluded from standard historical accounts. Looking Back on the Vietnam War thus embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why.

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030389734

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The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature by Andrew Hammond Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War. Eschewing the common focus on national cultures, the collection defines Cold War literature as an international current focused on the military and ideological conflicts of the age and characterised by styles and approaches that transcended national borders. Drawing on specialists from across the world, the volume analyses the period’s fiction, poetry, drama and autobiographical writings in three sections: dominant concerns (socialism, decolonisation, nuclearism, propaganda, censorship, espionage), common genres (postmodernism, socialism realism, dystopianism, migrant poetry, science fiction, testimonial writing) and regional cultures (Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and the Americas). In doing so, the volume forms a landmark contribution to Cold War literary studies which will appeal to all those working on literature of the 1945-1989 period, including specialists in comparative literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary literature and regional literature.

Author : Denis Jonnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317649489

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Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture by Denis Jonnes Pdf

Demands placed on many young Americans as a result of the Cold War give rise to an increasingly age-segregated society. This separation allowed adolescents and young adults to begin to formulate an identity distinct from previous generations, and was a significant factor in their widespread rejection of contemporary American society. This study traces the emergence of a distinctive post-war family dynamic between parent and adolescent or already adult child. In-depth readings of individual writers such as, Arthur Miller, William Styron, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O’Connor and Sylvia Plath, situate their work in relation to the Cold War and suggest how the figuring of adolescents and young people reflected and contributed to an empowerment of American youth. This book is a superb research tool for any student or academic with an interest in youth culture, cultural studies, American studies, cold war studies, twentieth-century American literature, history of the family, and age studies.

Author : Steven Belletto,Daniel Grausam
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609381448

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American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War by Steven Belletto,Daniel Grausam Pdf

The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify. A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940s to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigms that equate postwar U.S. culture with containment culture, the authors present suggestive revisionist claims. Their essays draw on a literary archive—including the works of John Updike, Joan Didion, Richard E. Kim, Allen Ginsberg, Edwin Denby, Alice Childress, Frank Herbert, and others—strikingly different from the one typically presented in accounts of the period. Likewise, the authors describe phenomena—such as the FBI’s surveillance of writers (especially African Americans), biopolitics, development theory, struggles over the centralization and decentralization of government, and the cultural work of Reaganism—that open up new contexts for discussing postwar culture. Extending the timeline and expanding the geographic scope of Cold War culture, this book reveals both the literature and the culture of the time to be more dynamic and complex than has been generally supposed.

Author : Michael Hunt
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141946665

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A Vietnam War Reader by Michael Hunt Pdf

Nixon: I'd rather use a nuclear bomb. Have you got that ready? Kissinger: Now that, I think, would just be, uh, too much, uh - Nixon: A nuclear bomb, does that bother you? [Kissinger response virtually inaudible] Nixon: I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake! A Vietnam War Reader, edited by Michael Hunt, is a unique collection of shocking lived experiences, directly from the mouths and the pens of those soldiers, politicians and citizens who lived through the days of the Vietnam War and its bloody aftermath. Including testimony from both American and Vietnamese sources, the Reader contains such diverse documents as Ho Chi Minh's report to the Communist Party, a secret memo from the CIA on the Vietcong and a 1966 letter from a junior officer to his family, describing his growing doubts about the war. Transcripts show the casual conversations and public press conferences that would lead to millions of deaths, revealing the terrible dilemmas faced by those in power, and on the ground. Pham Van Dong: If the United States dares to start a limited war, we will fight it, and will win it. Mao Zedong: Yes, you can win it.

Author : Francesca Orsini,Neelam Srivastava,Laetitia Zecchini
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781800641914

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The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form by Francesca Orsini,Neelam Srivastava,Laetitia Zecchini Pdf

This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War. The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms. With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.

Author : Laurel Corona,Craig Blohm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590183894

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War Within a War by Laurel Corona,Craig Blohm Pdf

Explores both the Vietnam War and the Cold War and their effect on the world.

Author : Sarah Daw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474430043

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Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature by Sarah Daw Pdf

A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacy.

Author : Mark Bradley,Robert K. Brigham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Archival resources
ISBN : IND:30000041708995

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Vietnamese Archives and Scholarship on the Cold War Period by Mark Bradley,Robert K. Brigham Pdf

Author : Mark Atwood Lawrence,Fredrik Logevall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674023925

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The First Vietnam War by Mark Atwood Lawrence,Fredrik Logevall Pdf

How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and Western liberalism? To understand the course of the Vietnam wars, it is essential to explore the connections between events within Vietnam and global geopolitical currents in the decade after the Second World War. In this illuminating work, leading scholars examine various dimensions of the struggle between France and Vietnamese revolutionaries that began in 1945 and reached its climax at Dien Bien Phu. Several essays break new ground in the study of the Vietnamese revolution and the establishment of the political and military apparatus that successfully challenged both France and the United States. Other essays explore the roles of China, France, Great Britain, and the United States, all of which contributed to the transformation of the conflict from a colonial skirmish to a Cold War crisis. Taken together, the essays enable us to understand the origins of the later American war in Indochina by positioning Vietnam at the center of the grand clash between East and West and North and South in the middle years of the twentieth century.