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The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form

Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures

by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Srivastava, Laetitia Zecchini

The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form

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Book Description

This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book's essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War.

The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Bengali, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms.

With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.

This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). You can download The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form ebook for free in PDF format (32.4 MB).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
The Traveller as Internationalist: Syed Mujtaba Ali
Chapter 2
Writing Friendship: The Fraternal Travelogue and China-India Cultural Diplomacy in the 1950s
Chapter 3
Literary Activism: Hindi Magazines, the Short Story and the World
Chapter 4
Publishing the Resistance: Third-Worldist Writing in Cold War Italy
Chapter 5
The Meanings, Forms and Exercise of 'Freedom': The Indian PEN and the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom (1930s-1960s)
Chapter 6
Moroccan Intellectuals Between Decolonisation and the Arab Cold War: Abdallah Laroui's Critical and Literary Writing
Chapter 7
The Poetics and Politics of Solidarity: Barg el-Lil (1961) and Afrotopia
Chapter 8
Euforia, Desencanto: Roberto BolaƱo and Barcelona Publishing in the Transition to Democracy

Book Details

Title
The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form
Subject
History
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Published
2022
Pages
342
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9781800641884
ISBN10
1800641885
ISBN13 Digital
9781800641907
ISBN10 Digital
1800641907
PDF Size
32.4 MB
License
CC BY-NC-ND

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