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The Literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam: Sacrificial Logic and Paranoid Plotlines
July, 2009
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3527-6
Edinburgh University Press
$110.00
The Literary Cold War concentrates on authors who straddle the line between aesthetic project and political allegory, paying particular attention to the work of Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene. A paranoid plotline informs these and other Anglo-American texts, from Storm Jameson and John Dos Passos to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and they commonly trade in the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer who finds himself caught up in sacrificial triangles. Following the lead of prominent historians of the period, this volume gives shape to a new field in literary studies&mdashthe literary Cold War.