{"id":49252,"date":"2025-10-31T20:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=49252"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:48:41","slug":"natasa-kovacevic-nonaligned-imagination-yugoslavia-the-global-south-and-literary-solidarities-beyond-the-cold-war-blocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=49252","title":{"rendered":"Nata\u0161a Kova\u010devi\u0107, “Nonaligned Imagination. Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seeking an alternative to Cold War\u2013bloc politics, socialist Yugoslavia turned to the decolonizing countries of the Global South. It forged political, economic, and cultural links with postcolonial states and anticolonial liberation movements through the Non-Aligned Movement, of which it was a founding member in 1961. NAM spanned political and economic systems, uniting members in opposition to superpower politics and around policies of nuclear disarmament, active peaceful coexistence, anticolonialism, and respect for national sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nata\u0161a Kova\u010devi\u0107 reconstructs the forgotten literary and cultural history of this movement, tracing the development of new networks of intellectual engagement and cultural exchange between writers, journalists, and scholars who connected postwar Yugoslavia with 1950s India, 1960s Algeria and Guinea, 1970s Vietnam, and beyond. Nonaligned narratives attempted to reconfigure the understanding of the globe outside Eurocentric tropes and hegemonic political stratifications and to articulate Yugoslavs\u2019 own internationalist sensibility. With Cold War\u2013era rhetoric intensifying again in the twenty-first century, Nonaligned Imagination assumes the urgent task of unearthing a history of engaged writing and cultural diplomacy that imagined alternatives to superpower conflicts and a bipolar vision of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction: On the Cultural Frontlines of the Cold War<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1: Revolutionary Travelogues as an Archives of Radical Friendship<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2: Nonaligned Literary Aesthetic and Postcolonial (Dis)Enchantment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 3: Literary Ambassadors and Cultural Third Spaces<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 4: Decolonial Scholarship between the Periphery and Semiperiphery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coda: Nonalignment as Epistemology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNonaligned Imagination <\/em>presents a major contribution to filling the gaps of alternative and lost cultural histories. Kova\u010devi\u0107\u2019s unified and persuasive narrative is a genuine achievement in its reclaiming and presentation of a wealth of rarely discussed and archival material.\u201d \u2014Gordana P. Crnkovi\u0107, University of Washington, Seattle

\u201cNata\u0161a Kova\u010devi\u0107’s Nonaligned Imagination<\/em> restores Yugoslavia to its rightful place in the history of the Global South by way of the Global East. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, this excellent book will be integral to conversations about the cultural Cold War among historians, literary scholars, and other like-minded readers.\u201d \u2014Christopher J. Lee, Lafayette College <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATA\u0160A KOVA\u010cEVI\u0106 <\/strong>is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of Narrating Post\/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe\u2019s Borderline Civilization and Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher: <\/strong>Northwestern University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published: <\/strong>September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: <\/strong>248<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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