There's been a feeling on the margins of English fiction for more than 20 years now that real moral seriousness is beyond our grasp. The easy ride we had from recent history, coupled with the practised evasiveness of middle-class manners, means that our best novelists can do the ups and...
One would be hard-pressed to find an era more inhospitable to either Christianity or humanism than that of the nascent Cold War in France, which severely tested affirmations of both perspectives. First, and doubtless most formidable, was the challenge of history. The devastating carnage of World...
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Half a century after the CIA’s Secret War in Laos—the largest bombing campaign in history—explosive remnants of war continue to be part of people’s everyday lives. InBomb ChildrenLeah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air ...
来自 morebooks.de 喜欢 0 阅读量: 19 作者: Natalia Voinova 摘要: This study will compare the USSR and the United States according to their cinematic use of science fiction in the late 1950s and 1960s in order to coincide with the period of de-Stalinisation and thaw in the USSR, and ...
The geopolitical fault line of the Cold War was more than a convenient backdrop to post-war espionage narratives. There developed in the imagination of British writers and film-makers a relish for the figurative potential — the sheer 'metaphoricity' — of newly-divided Central Europe. This set...
trenchant assertion by another that `There was a war and we won it'.12It is against this background that I will be examining aspects of the image of the submarine in British culture in the Cold War, focusing specifically on the way the submarine has been represented in popular fiction. Th...
Losing Laika is a Cold War novel. On May 1, 1960, Petró Kravets and colleague Ivan arrive at the crash of the American U-2 spy plane. Experienced optics technicians, they remove the camera. Above all, their work carries on their late fathers' legacy of defending the Motherland. Petró ...
Cold War propaganda infiltrated almost all aspects of society and culture, including political rhetoric, education, film, television, literature and music.
This chapter discusses Central American Cold War literature by focusing on its main forms (poetry, testimonio , prose fiction) and its main concerns (US involvement, dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, militancy, ideology and trauma). The main argument is that Central American literature presentsthe Cold...