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

    By Friederike Kind-Kovács

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentral European University Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2014
    ISBN9789633860236
    Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
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    Friederike Kind-Kovács

    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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