Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Traveller as Internationalist: Syed Mujtaba Ali -- 2. Writing Friendship: The Fraternal Travelogue and China-India Cultural Diplomacy in the 1950s -- 3. Literary Activism: Hindi Magazines, the Short Story and the World -- 4. Publishing the Resistance: Third-Worldist Writing in Cold War Italy -- 5. The Meanings, Forms and Exercise of 'Freedom': The Indian PEN and the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom (1930s-1960s) -- 6. Moroccan Intellectuals Between Decolonization and the Arab Cold War: Abdallah Laroui's Critical and Literary Writing -- 7. The Poetics and Politics of Solidarity: Barg el-Lil (1961) and Afrotopia -- 8. Euforia, Desencanto: Roberto Bola�no and Barcelona Publishing in the Transition to Democracy -- Afterword: A World of Print -- Index.

This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book's essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War.

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