Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization 082329482X, 9780823294824

How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes

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Table of contents :
Contents
Note on Romanizations
Introduction: Ruling Like a Foreigner: Theorizing “Free World” uthoritarianism in the Asia- Pacific Cold War
Part I. Authorities of Alignment, 1955–1988
1 Writing Freedom from Bandung to PEN International
2 In the Shadow of Solzhenitsyn: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Kim Chi- ha, Ninotchka Rosca, and Cold War Critique
Part II. Genres of Cold War Reckoning, 1997–2017
3 Separate Futures: Other Times of Southeast Asian Decolonization
4 The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism
5 Killing Communists, Transitional Justice, and the Making of the Post–Cold War
Epilogue: Authoritarian Lessons for Neoliberal Times
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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