TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
AU - Cucu, Sorin Radu
AU - Shen, Shuang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This introduction examines the two main questions explored in the special issue: What does the Cold War's interweaving of international politics and global war disclose about contemporary world literature discourse? What does world literature (as idea, program, and, more importantly, as reality of writing and reading beyond the framework of the nation-state) tell us about the Cold War and its discursive reliance on rhetorical ambiguity? We depart from the major approaches to literature's relationship with the Cold War that focuses on how the latter is represented by literature or how literature responds to the Cold War. We also do not simplistically consider the Cold War as only naming an epoch in world history, or world literature as the totality of literary works and circulation networks spurred by a partly frozen global conflict at the heart of the twentieth century.
AB - This introduction examines the two main questions explored in the special issue: What does the Cold War's interweaving of international politics and global war disclose about contemporary world literature discourse? What does world literature (as idea, program, and, more importantly, as reality of writing and reading beyond the framework of the nation-state) tell us about the Cold War and its discursive reliance on rhetorical ambiguity? We depart from the major approaches to literature's relationship with the Cold War that focuses on how the latter is represented by literature or how literature responds to the Cold War. We also do not simplistically consider the Cold War as only naming an epoch in world history, or world literature as the totality of literary works and circulation networks spurred by a partly frozen global conflict at the heart of the twentieth century.
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U2 - 10.1163/24056480-00704001
DO - 10.1163/24056480-00704001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85145186956
SN - 2405-6472
VL - 7
SP - 471
EP - 489
JO - Journal of World Literature
JF - Journal of World Literature
IS - 4
ER -