
Written Here, Published There
How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
Friederike Kind-Kovacs(Editor)
Central European University Press
Published on 1. November 2014
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-963-386-022-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 detente, 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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
778 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-386-022-9 (9789633860229)
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Written Here, Published There
How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
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Person
Friederike Kind-Kovacs 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).
Content
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