Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain

Friederike Kind-Kovács

Published by Central European University Press 2014

Written Here, Published There

How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain

Friederike Kind-Kovács

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633860236

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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.

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Kind-Kovács Friederike :

Friederike Kind-Kovács is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg and a postdoctoral fellow of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg/Munich).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction: Tamizdat as Cold War Interaction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 1: Tamizdat on Trial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2: Tamizdat: A Transnational Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 3: Tamizdat Border Crossings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Chapter 4: Tamizdat: The Writers’ Right to Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Epilogue: Beyond the Literary Cold War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 520
Keywords: Censorship; Cold War; East and West; Foreign relations; Freedom of expression; Literature

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Published: November 1, 2014
ISBN: 9789633860236