Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond

Samizdat, Tamizdat, and BeyondIn many ways what is identified today as cultural globalization in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat (do it yourself underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding the definitions of

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Marginal scholarship and textual deviance argues that there is often no ‘original’ to reconstruct no ‘genuine’ text and no one author: there is only variation and a broad range of mutually exclusive but complementary truths