Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World: Theatre, Film, Literature and Things

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the USA and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world.

Christopher B. Balme is professor of Theatre Studies and a director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global: disconnect at LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.