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The Nonconformists
American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain
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Brian K. Goodman
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2023
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The Cold War was an era of surprising connections between American and Czech literary cultures. Major writers met behind the Iron Curtain, while others smuggled, translated, and adapted works from the other side. Brian K. Goodman explores the artistic and political consequences, arguing that the movement of literature inspired new forms of dissent.
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A stimulating book…brilliantly shows that while American literature and music offered Czechs a dream of improvisatory freedom, Czech literature offered Americans an example of what, variously, they might do with it as if it mattered.
-- Kathryn Murphy Times Literary Supplement
-- Kathryn Murphy Times Literary Supplement
Painstakingly researched…reconstructs…writers’ numerous trips to Prague during the mid-20th century, but also their gravitation towards members of the vanguard of anti-establishment culture in Czechoslovakia.
-- Ian Ellison Los Angeles Review of Books
-- Ian Ellison Los Angeles Review of Books
An excellent contribution to the field…an extremely stimulating work full of rewarding details.
-- Martin Machovec Austrian History Yearbook
-- Martin Machovec Austrian History Yearbook
With expertly marshaled archival research and a compelling narrative, The Nonconformists shows that dissident writers engaged in their own creative Cold War politics as they chafed against the era’s conformity and repression. This literature was both a result of—and an alternative to—the forced, false dilemma of East versus West.
-- Stephan Delbos Journal of Cold War Studies
-- Stephan Delbos Journal of Cold War Studies
Engaging and insightful…[a] satisfying and stimulating overview.
-- Charles Sabatos Slavonic and East European Review
-- Charles Sabatos Slavonic and East European Review
A long overdue account of this neglected literary-political formation…Perhaps the most important lesson of…[this book] is that any attempt to understand cultural agency in the Cold War demands a willingness to jettison extreme ideological claims in favor of a diligent and nuanced intellectualism. If literature can make something happen, Goodman suggests that it tends to do so quietly, on the lower frequencies, where we must listen carefully indeed.
-- Harilaos Stecopoulos American Literary History
-- Harilaos Stecopoulos American Literary History
Focusing on how literature and politics between American and Czech writers intertwined, Goodman lays out the surprising extent and frequency in which the writers from the two countries influenced each other. As a result, the transnational scope of the work as well as the aim to refocus our discussion of the cultural Cold War toward the Eastern Bloc makes [this book] a valuable addition to both Czech and American literary scholarship.
-- Antonín Zita CEU Review of Books
-- Antonín Zita CEU Review of Books
Goodman brilliantly reveals how US–Czech literary encounters produced, largely unintentionally, the figure of the ‘dissident writer,’ which eventually became the symbol of the human rights movement that brought down the Iron Curtain. He reminds us that the Cold War was a period of lively, if often tortured, cultural exchange that cannot be reduced to the terms of a Cold War binary.
-- Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Free World
-- Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Free World
Eye-opening and unforgettable. Goodman is a wonderful storyteller, and this is a story never told before. Featuring a vibrant continuum of literature, music, and theater linking Czechoslovakia and the United States, this East-West fusion sheds light on Franz Kafka, Václav Havel, and Josef Škvorecký no less than Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth, and Arthur Miller.
-- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Weak Planet
-- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Weak Planet
Illuminating and full of insights. With lucid and often elegant prose, Goodman masterfully tackles the continuities between American and Czech literary cultures during the Cold War era. Among its many virtues, The Nonconformists moves us away from a US-centric literary history and toward one that attends carefully to the cross-cultural networks that extended across the Iron Curtain.
-- James Dawes, author of The Novel of Human Rights
-- James Dawes, author of The Novel of Human Rights
Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived, The Nonconformists brilliantly captures the ambiguities of moral witness in the era of Cold War literary dissent. Goodman takes us on a grand literary tour showing how the transnational encounters between such towering figures as Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth, Václav Havel, and Milan Kundera were foundational for the emergence of a new global human rights order in the late twentieth century.
-- Mark Bradley, author of The World Reimagined
-- Mark Bradley, author of The World Reimagined
Groundbreaking and highly original. Goodman’s meticulous archival research and his capacious familiarity with the latest research in Czech and American studies is impressive. Even more so is his ability to stitch together what might initially seem to be adjacent case studies into a deep fabric of transnational intellectual history.
-- Michelle Woods, author of Kafka Translated
-- Michelle Woods, author of Kafka Translated
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20. Juni 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780674292956
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352
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9780674292956
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
F O Matthiessen; beat generation; communism; human rights; cultural exchange; censorship; free expression; Samizdat; Gray Zone; Jazz Section; Sixty Eight Publishers; intellectuals; Majales; translation; The Cowards; Ludvik Vaculik; novel; poetry
