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Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Honorable Mention, Ren Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
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.
Focusing on East and Southeast Asia, the book scrutinizes cultural texts ranging from dissident poetry, fiction, and writers conference proceedings of the Cold War period, to more recent literature, graphic novels, and films that retrospectively look back to these decades with a critical eye. Paying particular attention to anti-communist repression and state infrastructures of violence, the book provides a richaccount of several U.S.allied Cold War regimes in the Asia Pacific, including the South Korean military dictatorship, Marcos rule in the Philippines, illiberal Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew, and Suhartos Indonesia.
Watsons book argues that the cultural forms and narrative techniques that emerged from the Cold War-decolonizing matrix offer new ways of comprehending these histories and connecting them to our present. The book advances our understanding of the global reverberations of the Cold War and its enduring influence on cultural and political formations in the Asia Pacific.
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AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE GENRES OF DECOLONIZATION
Jini Kim Watson
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 2021
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Librariesand the generous support of New York University. Learn more at the TOME website, which can be found at the following web address: openmonographs.org .
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for Bryce and Mateo
In general, I use the McCune-Reischauer system for romanizing Korean texts and names, except where other romanizations are more widely known (for example, Park Chung Hee, not Pak Chng-hi). For proper names from translated texts, I use the romanization employed by the translator and the McCune-Reischauer system for clarifications.
Chinese texts, names, and terms are romanized in pinyin, except for Taiwanese and other names that have been commonly transliterated using other systems. I use standard contemporary Indonesian and Malaysian spelling and clarify where names have variants (for example, Sukarno and Soekarno).
Ruling Like a Foreigner: Theorizing Free World Authoritarianism in the Asia-Pacific Cold War
Im surely in good company
with Maos pate,
Pinochets smirk,
Mussolinis jaw,
Hitlers moustache,
Francos height,
Kims jowl,
Gaddafis nose,
Mugabes philtrum
all the very best of them.
Singaporean poet Cyril Wong published his sly rendition of the dictatorial personality, The Dictators Eyebrow, in 2013. In this extended fifty-page poem, the dictators own eyebrow becomes the narrating subject of history, finding itself in good company with other trademark authoritarian facial features from Hitlers moustache to Maos hairline to Mugabes upper lip. The eyebrow-narrator goes on to describe a series of humdrum duties as the typical work of the dictator:
Another witchhunt; another day.
A leaders work is never done.
How many colleagues, journalists, teachers,
opposition-members, artists and students
have you brought to their knees
with the threat of imprisonment[?]
Wongs satiric poem plays on one of the great political tropes of the twentieth century: the larger-than-life, over-the-top dictator, whose personal excesses and unchecked power have long been recognizable traits ripe for parody. As a whole, the fifty-one-stanza poem functions as an identikit image of the twentieth-century tyrant. As Gwee Li Sui writes in the introduction, the eyebrow expresses the inevitable fusion in time of power and personality, power and idiosyncrasy. Wongs poem is indicative of the way we often view the problem of dictatorship, and its cognate authoritarianism, as a single and unified phenomenon or substance focalized through the larger-than-life personality of a tyrant.
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