Cold War Books in the 'Other' Europe and What Came After

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18745-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 832 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Industrial World

Drawing on analyses of the socio-cultural context of East and Central Europe, with a special focus on the Czech cultural dynamics of the Cold War and its aftermath, this book offers a study of the making and breaking of the centrally-controlled system of book production and reception. It explores the social, material and symbolic reproduction of the printed text, in both official and alternative spheres, and patterns of dissemination and reading. Building on archival research, statistical data, media analyses, and in-depth interviews with the participants of the post-1989 de-centralization and privatization of the book world, it revisits the established notions of ‘censorship’ and ‘revolution’ in order to uncover people’s performances that contributed to both the reproduction and erosion of the ‘old regime’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smejkalová, Ji&

Šmejkalová, Jirina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I. Command Book Project: Origins and Feedbacks
Chapter One. What is known about (totalitarian) books?
Chapter Two. Monitoring the ‘Red Model’

Part II. Manufacturing Cold War Books
Chapter Three. The Ambiguities of Censorship and Resistance
Chapter Four. Suppressing the Margins
Chapter Five. Performing Silences
Chapter Six. The Literary Establishment

Part III. and What Comes after.
Chapter Seven. Discontinual Continuities
Chapter Eight. Freedom in Print
Chapter Nine. The Paper Revolutionaries

Instead of a Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jirina Šmejkalová, CSc/Ph.D. (1991) in Sociology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has published on cultural and gender issues in Central Europe, including Kniha [The book] (Host, 2000).