Cold War Assemblages (Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War) by Bhakti Shringarpure

Cold War Assemblages (Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War) by Bhakti Shringarpure

Author:Bhakti Shringarpure [Shringarpure, Bhakti]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367196943
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2019-03-29T07:00:00+00:00


In addition, recruitment of spies on campuses had reached a fever pitch in the seventies and the numbers were quite shocking, up to 5000 academics in total. Some of these academics belonged to screening committees to recruit 200 to 300 foreign students out of the 250,000 who came annually to the US for higher education at the time (25–8).

Thus, while the role of sciences and social sciences is less ambiguous, the part played by the humanities seems to lie beneath the radar and is possibly harder to discern. The questions I want to tackle in this chapter are manifold yet intricately connected to one another: What is the role of the Cold War in re-configuring various disciplines in the humanities and carving them up as area studies departments? If the Cold War is indeed a postcolonial event, how can its absence in postcolonial studies (usually located in English departments) be understood? For example, why is the Cold War such an ominous absence in the genealogy and material that constitutes postcolonial studies? How can this absence be theorized, accounted for, and more importantly, what does it say about how postcolonial futures were imagined? This chapter will draw from a mix of theoretical reflections from fields ranging from English to postcolonial studies to critical university studies in order to redraw the map of literary studies, as a whole, and postcolonial studies, more specifically, as it developed and has endured in Anglo-American academic spaces in the last half of the 20th century. I also expand on ways in which the Cold War’s role in literary canon formation impacted English departments in the US, an issue that will be explored in further detail in the Chapter 4.



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