Archives of authority: empire, culture, and the Cold War

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, this work argues that cultural politics played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the US during a critical period after WWII.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Archives of Authority; The Archive and the Juridical; States of Exception; States of Criticism; Chapter 2: Orwell and the Globalization of Literature; Communist Crypts; The "Communist Menace"; The Translation of Authority; Translation and Modes of Domination; Chapter 3: Transnational Literary Spaces at War; The Sun Never Sets on the British Writer; The Time of Translation; London Calling; Literary Diplomacy; Chapter 4: Archives of Critical Theory; Accommodations.