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Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
Friederike Kind-Kovács
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Description for Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
Hardcover. This book proposes a new perspective on the role of literature in the Cold War and shifts the reader's attention to the gaps in the ostensibly impenetrable Iron Curtain. It uncovers the histories of the widely forgotten phenomenon of tamizdat: "publishing-over-there". Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: HBTW; JPVH2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 736.
Written Here, Published There offers a new perspective on the role of underground literature in the Cold War and challenges us to recognize gaps in the Iron Curtain. The book identifies a transnational undertaking that reinforced détente, dialogue, and cultural transfer, and thus counterbalanced the persistent belief in Europe's irreversible division.
It analyzes a cultural practice that attracted extensive attention during the Cold War but has largely been ignored in recent scholarship: tamizdat, or the unauthorized migration of underground literature across the Iron Curtain. Through this cultural practice, I offer a new reading of Cold War Europe's history. Investigating ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Central European University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789633860229
SKU
V9789633860229
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About Friederike Kind-Kovács
Friederike Kind-Kovács is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg and a postdoctoral fellow of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg/Munich).
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