Archives of Authority
：Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
( Translation/Transnation )
Publication subTitle ：Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
Publication series ：Translation/Transnation
Author： Rubin Andrew N.;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9781400842179
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691154152
Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation
Keyword： 世界文学,美洲史,欧洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
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.
Rubin demonstrates that the nearly instantaneous translation of texts by George Orwell, Thomas Mann, W. H. Auden, Richard Wright, Mary McCarthy, and Albert Camus, among others, into interrelated journals that were sponsored by organizations such as the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom and circulated around the world effectively reshaped writers, critics, and intellectuals into easily recognizable, transnational figures. Their work formed a new canon of world literature that was celebrated in the United States and supposedly represented the best of contemporary thought, while less politically attractive authors were ignored or even demonized. This championing and demonizing of writers occurred in the name of
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