Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

<br/>Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation dissemination and reception of literature this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs university literature departments book-review sections of newspapers publishing houses non-governmental cultural agencies libraries and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently.<br/> <br/>Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth Updike and Faulkner as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including but not limited to Taiwan Japan Uganda South Africa India Cuba the USSR and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.