TY - BOOK AU - Cucu,Sorin Radu TI - The Underside of Politics: Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War SN - 9780823254347 AV - PN3448.P6 C83 2013 U1 - 809.3/935809045 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Cold War in literature KW - Cold War KW - Social aspects KW - Europe KW - Fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics in literature KW - Political fiction KW - American Studies KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - American exceptionalism KW - World order KW - globalism KW - literature KW - political theology KW - popular sovereignty KW - prophetic writing KW - the contemporary KW - totalitarianism KW - transnational networks N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prelude --; Introduction. Writing the Cold War: Literature, Democracy and the Global Polis --; 1. Kafka and the Cold War: Fantasies of the Invisible Master --; 2. The Vicissitudes of Popular Sovereignty --; 3. National Security in the Age of the Global Picture --; 4. All Power to the Networks! --; Concluding Remarks: Transnational American Studies in the Fog of the Cold War --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book argues that during the Cold War modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality—freedom in the West versus social justice in the East—and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to national security. Examining post- 1945 American and Eastern European interpretive novels in dialogue with each other and with postfoundational democratic theory, The Underside of Politics brings to light the ideas, forces, and circumstances that shattered modernity’s promises (such as secularization, autonomy, and rights) on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In this context, literary fictions by Kundera and Roth, Popescu and Coover, Kiš and DeLillo become global as they reveal the trials of popular sovereignty in the “fog of the Cold War” and trace the elements around which its world discourse or global picture is constructed: the atom bomb, Stalinist show trials, anticommunist propaganda, totalitarian terror, secret military operations, and political targeting UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254361?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823254361 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823254361/original ER -