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Author Kind-Kovács, Friederike, 1978- author.

Title Written here, published there : how underground literature crossed the iron curtain / Friederike Kind-Kovács
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 504 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents Tamizdat in its infancy -- Tamizdat as community -- Tamizdat as border crosser -- Tamizdat as human right and discourse
Summary Written Here, Published There offers a new perspective on the role of underground literature in the Cold War and challenges us to recognize gaps in the Iron Curtain. The book identifies a transnational undertaking that reinforced détente, dialogue, and cultural transfer, and thus counterbalanced the persistent belief in Europe's irreversible division. It analyzes a cultural practice that attracted extensive attention during the Cold War but has largely been ignored in recent scholarship: tamizdat, or the unauthorized migration of underground literature across the Iron Curtain. Through this cultural practice, I offer a new reading of Cold War Europe's history . Investigating the transfer of underground literature from the 'Other Europe' to Western Europe, the United States, and back illuminates the intertwined fabrics of Cold War literary cultures. Perceiving tamizdat as both a literary and a social phenomenon, the book focuses on how individuals participated in this border-crossing activity and used secretive channels to guarantee the free flow of literature
Analysis Censorship, Cold War, East and West, Foreign relations, Freedom of expression, Literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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In Project MUSE Evidence Based Acquisitions (EBA) Project MUSE
Subject Underground literature -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
Russian literature -- Publishing -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Underground literature
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9633860237
9789633860236