Description: The Cold War in Southeast Asia was a many-faceted conflict, driven by regional historical imperatives as much as by the contest between global superpowers. The essays in this book offer the most detailed and probing examination to date of the cultural dimension of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian culture from the late 1940s to...
Brief description: Tony Day is a Visiting Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Previously, he taught Southeast Asian and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Review Quotes:
Cultures at War balances the study of popular and high culture with the larger historical contexts with thoroughness and clarity. The contributors examine the interplay of Cold War ideological conflicts with aspirations for non-alignment, structural bipolarity with individual pluralism, and post-colonial legacies with nationalist aspirations as manifested in various forms of art, literature, theatre, film and other forms of culture in Southeast Asia.... The volume will be a touchstone work for future research on the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. It is an important and stimulating contribution to the scholarship on Cold War histories and Southeast Asian Studies.
-- "Pacific Affairs"