Jensen, Meg (2020) Speaking trauma and history : the collective voice of testimonial literature. In: Hammond, Andrew, (ed.) The Palgrave handbook of Cold War literature. Cham. Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 323-343. ISBN 9783030389727
Abstract
The Cold War encompassed not only the division of Europe and the conflict between China and the West, but also proxy-conflicts fought between Central and Southern America and the African continent, and impacted too on lives in the non-aligned world. While traditional Western literary memoirs of the period tend to speaks to the private of an ego-centric “I,” testimonial literature from other affected regions tends towards a public spectacle, notably impersonal with political rather than private aims, challenging the dominant narratives of state propaganda. This chapter examines a range of such Cold War testimonial and reflects on the various forms of political agency they construct.
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