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N2  - This 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, Kiš 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.
DO  - 10.1515/9780823254361
DO  - doi
AB  - This 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, Kiš 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.
T1  - The Underside of Politics :Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War /
AU  - Cucu, Sorin Radu,
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
JF  - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
CN  - PN3448.P6
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1480646
KW  - Cold War in literature.
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Fiction
KW  - National characteristics in literature.
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - American Studies.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
KW  - American exceptionalism.
KW  - Cold War.
KW  - World order.
KW  - globalism.
KW  - literature.
KW  - political theology.
KW  - popular sovereignty.
KW  - prophetic writing.
KW  - the contemporary.
KW  - totalitarianism.
KW  - transnational networks.
SN  - 9780823254361
TI  - The Underside of Politics :Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War /
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ER  -