Book chapter
COLD WAR POSTMODERNISM
Postmodern/Postwar and After, pp.73-79
University of Iowa Press
07/01/2016
Abstract
For some time now, twentieth-century studies scholars have accepted the idea that the Cold War state co-opted modernism. The evidence is persuasive, particularly in the literary arts. One has only to recall the mid-1960s scandal over the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom’s (CCF) covert sponsorship of such respected US literary journals asThe Paris Review(founded by, among others, then CIA agent Peter Matthiessen),The Kenyon Review(edited for a time by CIA agent Robie Macauley), andThe Partisan Reviewto realize that the US state sought to exploit literary modernism as a propaganda tool. That the US State Department
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- COLD WAR POSTMODERNISM
- Creators
- HARILAOS Stecopoulos
- Contributors
- JASON Gladstone (Editor)ANDREW Hoberek (Editor)DANIEL Worden (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Postmodern/Postwar and After, pp.73-79
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398049402771
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