The Carrot and the Stick
University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney provided opening remarks for his lecture on how Cold War politics shaped literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. The University of Kentucky is located in Lexington.
Description
University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney provided opening remarks for his lecture on how Cold War politics shaped literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. The University of Kentucky is located in Lexington.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- What did the United States and Soviet Union “sponsor” as part of Cold War cultural diplomacy?
- Which medium was used “most of all” to target writers and audiences in the global South?
- What organization was a “CIA front?”
- Compare the magazines discussed in the clip. Which was the “most successful,” and why was it “unusual?”
- Through what ways did the United States and Soviet Union try to “influence the development of arts and letters?”
- How were many of the writers affected by “both parts of the narrative?”
- According to Peter Kalliney, what challenges did many writers in the Global South experience during the Cold War?
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Afro Asian Writers Association
- Alex La Guma
- Anglo
- Censor
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Circulation
- Citizenship
- Claudia Jones
- Cold War (1947-91)
- Conference
- Covert
- Cyril Lionel Robert James
- Decade
- Decolonizing
- Department Of State
- Deport
- Detention
- Diaspora
- Diplomacy
- Doris Lessing
- Eileen Chang
- Exile
- Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Global South
- Harass
- Henry Louis Gates
- House Arrest
- Memoir
- Mi5
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o
- Nobel Laureate
- Patronage
- Publication
- Rajat Neogy
- Sajjad Zaheer
- Soviet Union
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Wole Soyinka
- Yusuf Sibai