The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

Greg Barnhisel is Professor of English at Duquesne University, USA. He is an internationally known scholar of the history of the book, modernism and the cultural Cold War, with two monographs on those topics. In 2010, he edited an anthology entitled Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War. He is one of the editors of the journal Book History and a series editor for the 'Studies in Print Culture and the History or the Book' series at the University of Massachusetts Press.

Introduction

SECTION 1: PRODUCTION
1. How the Communist Party Shaped Gwendolyn Brooks’s Early Writing: Mary Helen Washington
2. The Cold War Encyclopedic Novel: Jeffrey Severs, University of British Columbia (Canada)
3. Cold War Technology and Women Poets: Linda Kinnahan, Duquesne University (USA)
4. The American Long Poem Evolves, 1945-1990: Ed Brunner, Southern Illinois University (USA)
5. Butler, Le Guin, and Feminist Science Fiction of the Cold War: Katlyn Williams, University of Iowa (USA)
6. Cold War Spy Fiction: Skip Willman, University of South Dakota
7. American Jewish Writers and the Eastern Bloc: Brian Goodman, Arizona State University (USA)
8. Writing the Cold War in the American Academic Novel: Ian Butcher, Fanshawe University (Canada)

SECTION II: CIRCULATION
9. Anglo-American Propaganda and the Transition from the Second World War to the Cultural Cold War: James Smith and Guy Woodward, Durham University (UK)
10. Book Diplomacy: Rósa Magnúsdóttir and Birgitte Beck Pristed, Aarhus University (Denmark)
11. Closets, Pulps, and the Gay Internationale: Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi (USA)
12. Librarians, Library Diplomacy, and the Cultural Cold War, 1950–1970: Amanda Laugesen, Australian National University (Australia)
13. The Transcription Centre and the Co-Production of African Literary Culture in the 1960s: Asha Rogers, University of Birmingham (UK)
14. Creative Writing and the Cold War: Eric Bennett, Providence College (USA)
15. How Chinese Letters Traveled to Iowa City: P Yi-hung Liu, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
16. William Faulkner as Cold War Cultural Ambassador: Deborah Cohn, Indiana University (USA)

SECTION III: RECEPTION
17. The Distribution and Reception of American Literature in Cold War Japan: Hiromi Ochi, Senshu University, Tokyo (Japan)
18. Making a Literary Working Class in the Cultural Cold War: Nicole Moore, University of New South Wales (Australia)
19. Anti-Apartheid Imagination, the Cold War-era, and African Literary Magazines: Christopher Ouma, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
20. Cuban Revolutionaries Read U.S. Writers: Russell Cobb, University of Alberta (Canada)
21. “Cultural Freedom” in Cold War India: Laetitia Zecchini, CNRS Paris (France)
22. Robinson Jeffers’s Journey behind the Iron Curtain: Jirina Smejkalova, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
23. Reading for Freedom in Cold War America: Kristin Matthews, Brigham Young University (USA)