English, Department of

 

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2013

Citation

Introduction to The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture. Fordham University Press, 2013: p. 1-5.

Comments

Copyright 2013, Fordham University Press. Used by permission.

Abstract

The first half of The Naked Communist is devoted to the theoretical and historical foundations of my reading of anti-Communist fictions. After the theoretical introduction, I examine anti-Communist aesthetic ideology by first analyzing its political and then its aesthetic components.

In the second half, I examine the way the culture of anti-Communism defined the “world” as the ultimate horizon of political imagination. Included is a brief overview of some of the most popular texts of the given genre.

Finally, I conclude these chapters with a reading of particular authors.

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