Archives of Authority

Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-691-15415-2
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 439 g

Reihe: Translation/Transnation

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Andrew Rubin argues that this transfer reshaped the postwar literary space and he shows how, during this time, new and efficient modes of cultural transmission, replication, and travel--such as radio and rapidly and globally circulated journals--completely transformed the position occupied by the postwar writer and the role of world literature. Rubin demonstrates that the nearly instantaneous translation of texts by George Orwell, Thomas Mann, W. H. Auden, Richard Wright, Mary McCarthy, and Albert Camus, among others, into interrelated journals that were sponsored by organizations such as the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom and circulated around the world effectively reshaped writers, critics, and intellectuals into easily recognizable, transnational figures. Their work formed a new canon of world literature that was celebrated in the United States and supposedly represented the best of contemporary thought, while less politically attractive authors were ignored or even demonized. This championing and demonizing of writers occurred in the name of anti-Communism--the new, transatlantic "civilizing mission" through which postwar cultural and literary authority emerged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubin, Andrew N

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1

Archives of Authority 11

The Archive and the Juridical 12

States of Exception 13

States of Criticism 17
Chapter 2

Orwell and the Globalization of Literature 24

Communist Crypts 28

The "Communist Menace" 34

The Translation of Authority 37

Translation and Modes of Domination 44
Chapter 3

Transnational Literary Spaces at War 47

The Sun Never Sets on the British Writer 47

The Time of Translation 58

London Calling 60

Literary Diplomacy 65
Chapter 4

Archives of Critical Theory 74

Accommodations 80
Chapter 5

Humanism, Territory, and Techniques of Trouble 87

Terrain of Philology 90
Notes 109

Bibliography 141

Index 167

Über Autor(innen)

Rubin, Andrew N
Andrew N. Rubin is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the coeditor of "Adorno: A Critical Reader" and "The Edward Said Reader."