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 De Lillo 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.
Über den Autor
Sorin Radu Cucu is Assistant Professor in the English Department at La Guardia Community College, City University of New York.
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 264 ● ISBN 9780823254354 ● Dateigröße 0.8 MB ● Verlag Fordham University Press ● Ort New York ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2013 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 4850507 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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