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Author Rubin, Andrew.

Title Archives of authority : empire, culture, and the Cold War / Andrew N. Rubin.

Publication Info. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 184 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Translation/transnation
Translation/transnation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Archives of Authority; The Archive and the Juridical; States of Exception; States of Criticism; Chapter 2: Orwell and the Globalization of Literature; Communist Crypts; The "Communist Menace"; The Translation of Authority; Translation and Modes of Domination; Chapter 3: Transnational Literary Spaces at War; The Sun Never Sets on the British Writer; The Time of Translation; London Calling; Literary Diplomacy; Chapter 4: Archives of Critical Theory; Accommodations.
Chapter 5: Humanism, Territory, and Techniques of TroubleTerrain of Philology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary 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.
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Subject Cold War in literature.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
Criticism -- History -- 20th century.
Criticism.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: 9780691154152
9781400842179
ISBN 9781400842179 (electronic book)
1400842174 (electronic book)
9780691154152
0691154155
9780691154152