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The tensions between postcolonial freedom and Cold War alignment were further articulated by writers such as Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Kim Chi-ha, and Ninotchka Rosca, whose political critiques Watson uncovers from the reductive Cold War frame of "dissident literature." Complementing Hong's transpacific cultural archive of anti-imperialist critique is Watson's I Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization i , which considers how Cold War discourses of freedom and authoritarianism were debated in the field of Asian literary and cultural production. Yet if "Jim Crow in uniform" made readily apparent the contradictions of Black participation in a US war for democracy, the desegregation of US troops in the Korean War marks for Hong the "militarized origin of multiculturalism as a budding state ideology" (40). [Extracted from the article] |
