Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War)

Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War)

by Bhakti Shringarpure (Author)

Synopsis

This book bridges the gap between the simultaneously unfolding histories of postcoloniality and the forty-five-year ideological and geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Not only did the superpowers rely upon the decolonizing world to further imperial agendas, but the postcolony itself was shaped, epistemologically and materially, by Cold War discourses, policies, narratives, and paradigms. Ruptures and appropriated trajectories in the postcolonial world can be attributed to the ways in which the Cold War became the afterlife of European colonialism. Through a speculative assemblage, this book connects the dots, deftly taking the reader from Frantz Fanon to Aaron Swartz, and from assassinations in the Third World to American multiculturalism. Whether the Cold War subverted the dream of decolonization or created a compromised cultural sphere, this book makes those rich palimpsests visible.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 15 Mar 2019

ISBN 10: 0367196948
ISBN 13: 9780367196943

Author Bio
Bhakti Shringarpure is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and editor-in-chief of Warscapes magazine.