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The analysis of literary responses to the Cold War has made rapid progress in recent years. Emerging in the 1980s and 1990s, the field of study has its roots in US research into the multiple ways in which domestic authors responded to such events as McCarthyism, Soviet containment, arms escalation and military intervention in Korea and Vietnam.
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Hammond, A. (2017). Cold War Anxieties. In: Cold War Stories. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61548-6_2
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