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TAMIZDAT · Transnational Book Diplomacy beyond the Cultural Cold War: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the Tamizdat

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-10-01 → 2026-11-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 265 099 €
Участници: 3
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF

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Накратко на български

Тамиздатът изследва литература от Източна Европа, която е била цензурирана у нас, но публикувана в чужбина по време на Студената война. Анализът помага да се разбере как писатели и издатели са си сътрудничали, вместо да се разглеждат само като враждуващи политически блокове.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

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Transnational Book Diplomacy beyond the Cultural Cold War: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the Tamizdat

The TAMIZDAT project undertook a comprehensive analysis of the transnational production, circulation, and reception of Soviet (S) and East European (EE) literature published abroad – known as tamizdat (which literally means “published over there”), which refers to S and EE texts that were censored or unpublished in the Eastern bloc but smuggled out and printed in the West– during the Cold War period (1954-1991). The main research objective is to overcome prevailing narratives that represented Western (W) and Eastern (E) cultures as isolated blocs, and interpreted tamizdat merely as an ideological weapon of the ‘Cultural Cold War’ (Scott-Smith, Romijn and Segal, 2014). It is framed in a new scientific paradigm for the investigation of the Cultural Cold War, which spanned from New Cold War Studies to Cultural Diplomacy and Transnational Relations. By focusing on small state and non-state actors instead of superpowers (Autio-Sarasmo and Miklóssy 2011), it analyses book diplomacy to demonstrate cooperation instead of opposition, interaction instead of confrontation, and multipolarity instead of bipolarity. With this aim, the research treated tamizdat as the result of socially and culturally regulated activities, emphasizing the agency of actors – state and non-state institutions (covert and overt organizations and literary associations, publishing houses, literary journals etc.) and individuals (writers, dissidents, human right activists, editors, translators, publishers, diplomats, literary agents etc.) – in the transnational production, circulation, and reception of manuscripts (samizdat) and books (tamizdat). TAMIZDAT sought to outline a comparative intellectual history of XX century by tracing the ‘topography of Cold War culture’, a map of transnational routes and socio-cultural networks of tamizdat across the ‘Nylon Curtain’ (Péteri 2004), an ideological and geopolitical border permeable to cultural objects.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The transnational production, circulation and reception of Soviet and East European literature in the West during the Cold War challenges the dominant two-bloc narrative and tells us a different story about the cross-border flow of knowledge and ideas. Focusing on the intense cultural exchanges of the time across and beyond the ‘Nylon Curtain’ –an ideological and geopolitical border extremely permeable to cultural objects– this research project aims to challenge: 1) the traditional representation of Western and Eastern cultures as divided into two isolated blocs and 2) the representation of tamizdat as a mere ideological weapon of the ‘Cultural Cold War’. The term TAMIZDAT (‘published abroad’) refers to Soviet and Eastern European texts, unpublished in the Eastern bloc and clandestinely smuggled and published in the West. As an alternative transnational publishing practice with a specific socio-cultural value, tamizdat highlights «cooperation across apparent ideological division and cross-border interaction instead of hostility» (Mikkonen, Scott-Smith et al. 2019). The «emphasis on smaller national and transnational actors instead of governments» (ibidem) demonstrates the crucial role of book diplomacy in preventing the cultural isolation of the two blocs. Following O. Sanchez-Sibony, who questiones from a socio-economic perspective the representation of the Cold War as a bipolar contest between superpowers (2014), I will address the socio-cultural dimension of this narrative. Treating tamizdat as the result of socially and culturally regulated activities, I will consider the agency of social (activists of social movements, dissidents, Soviet and East European émigrés, diplomats etc.) and cultural actors (writers, editors, translators, literary agents, critics, journalists, etc.) who contributed to its transnational production, circulation and reception, in order to outline a comparative socio-cultural history of the Cold War.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaКоординаторИталия
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY · STANFORDСъединени щати
UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · LeidenНидерландия