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Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire: About the Author

Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire
About the Author

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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
    1. A Working Definition of Russian Literature
    2. Note on Translations, Quoted Materials, and Titles
  6. 1: The Role of Literature during the Cold War
    1. The Historical and Cultural Context of the Cold War
    2. “When night seems thickest and the earth itself an intricate absurdity”: Literature as a Reaffirmation of Life in an Increasingly Dangerous World
    3. A Brief History (and Working Definition) of Subversive Satire
    4. Cold War Satire: Genre, Subgenre, Mode, All of the Above, or None?
  7. 2: The Intersection of Literature and Politics during the Cold War
    1. The Landscape of the Cold War’s “City of Words”
    2. Fictionality and the Ultimate Purpose of Subversive Satire
    3. The Cognitive Conception of the Cold War
    4. Sites and Sources of Linguistic Deformation
    5. Civil Defense: A Manhattan Project for Subversive Satirists
  8. 3: “The Bind of the Digital” and Other Oversimplified Logic
    1. “Bad shit, to be avoided”: The Pathology of Cold War Dichotomies in the United States
    2. “But you’re one of ours, aren’t you?”: Russian Subversions of Binary Logic
    3. “Backwards fly, my locomotive!”: Two Moralistic Subversions of Cold War Logic
  9. 4: Cold War Critiques of Utopia
    1. Series and Systems: The Chronic Nature of Cold War Dystopia
    2. The Cultural Context of Cold War Utopianism
    3. “It’s much more difficult to convince one individual of an idiotic idea than an entire people”: Undoing the Damage of Utopianism
  10. 5: Totalized Distortions and Fabrications
    1. “Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?”: Technology, Dehumanization, and Resistance
    2. “Peace Is Our Profession”: Science, Industry, and the Military Working Together
    3. “Poetry is the art of subordinating facts to the imagination”: Cold War Pathology in the United States
    4. “When life and Socialist Realist art converge”: Questioning the Story of Soviet History
  11. Epilogue: There Is Still Time
  12. Appendix: Time Line of Events and Publications
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author

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DEREK C. MAUS is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He has published many articles and essays on satire and American and Russian culture. He is also the coeditor of Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s Fiction.

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