Archives of authority : empire, culture, and the Cold War / Andrew N. Rubin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Archives of Authority; The Archive and the Juridical; States of Exception; States of Criticism; Chapter 2: Orwell and the Globalization of Literature; Communist Crypts; The "Communist Menace"; The Translation of Authority; Translation and Modes of Domination; Chapter 3: Transnational Literary Spaces at War; The Sun Never Sets on the British Writer; The Time of Translation; London Calling; Literary Diplomacy; Chapter 4: Archives of Critical Theory; Accommodations.

Chapter 5: Humanism, Territory, and Techniques of TroubleTerrain of Philology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Andrew Rubin argues that this transfer reshaped the postwar literary space and he shows how, during this time, new and efficient modes of cultural transmission, replication, and travel--such as radio and rapidly and globally circulated journals--completely transformed the position occupied by the postwar writer and the role of world literature.

English.

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