Kind-Kovács / Kind-Kovacs Written Here, Published There

How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-963-386-023-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

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 the transfer of underground literature from the 'Other Europe' to Western Europe, the United States, and back illuminates the intertwined fabrics of Cold War literary cultures. Perceiving tamizdat as both a literary and a social phenomenon, the book focuses on how individuals participated in this border-crossing activity and used secretive channels to guarantee the free flow of literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kind-Kovacs, Friederike

Kind-Kovács, Friederike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Tamizdat as Cold War Interaction

Chapter 1: Tamizdat on Trial

Chapter 2: Tamizdat: A Transnational Community

Chapter 3: Tamizdat Border Crossings

Chapter 4: Tamizdat: The Writers’ Right to Literature

Epilogue: Beyond the Literary Cold War

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kind-Kovács, Friederike
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).