Cold War Reckonings by Jini Kim Watson - 9780823294831

Cold War ReckoningsAuthoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization\nAuthor(s): Jini Kim Watson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823294831, 978-0823294831\nSynopsis\nHonorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association\n Honorable Mention, Ren Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association\n How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism to independent nation-states. Assembling a body of transpacific cultural works that speak to this historical conjuncture, Jini Kim Watson reveals autocracy to be not a deficient form of liberal democracy, but rather the result of Cold War entanglements with decolonization.\n Focusing on East and Southeast Asia, the book scrutinizes cultur.