This volume investigates the cultural sites where the global Cold War played out. It brings to view encounters that arose as writers, artists, filmmakers and intellectuals from or aligned with the Third World navigated the ideological and material constraints set by superpowers and regional powers.

Introduction: "The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas." Part 1: Literary and Cultural Conferences and Meetings 1. "Cultural Bandung or Writerly Cold War? Revisiting the 1956 Asian Writers' Conference from an India-China Perspective." 2. "Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Cultural Congress of Havana, and the Role of Culture in the Global South." 3. "The Limits of Global Solidarity: Reading the 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana through Andrew Salkey's Havana Journal." 4. "Sovereign Alliances: Reading the Romance between Cuba and the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1970s." 5. "'We Understand Each Other': Writers from Eastern Europe and the Global South at the International Writing Program (1970s)." Part 2: Networks and Festivals of Visual Art and Cinema 6. Ra "Cinema in the Spirit of Bandung: The Afro-Asian Film Festival Circuit, 1957-1964." 7. "From Dakar to Diaspora: The Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres as Nexus and Network." 8. "¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (In Senegal) and ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ (African Rhythms): Soviet Documentaries on Senegal during the Cold War." 9. "Ousmane Sembène's Borom Sarret and the Circulation of 'Tractor Art': A Cold War Contestation of Soviet Machine Iconography." 10. "Networks of South-South Solidarity and Cold War Argentine Filmmaking." Part 3: Literature and Print Culture Itineraries 11. "War, Famine, and Newsprint: The Making of Soviet India, 1942-1945." 12. "The Vatic Bargain: Solidarity and the Futures of the Philippine Cold War." 13. "Asia's Refugee City: Hong Kong in the Cold War." 14. "Freedom and Development in the Cultural Cold War." 15. "Raindrop on Dusty Ground: Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, and the Cold War." Part 4: Spectacular Performances 16. "Choreographing Ideology: On the Ballet Adaptation of Peter Abrahams' The Path of Thunder in the Soviet Union." 17. "'It's like inviting Pinochet to the Fourth of July': The Chilean Ship Esmeralda and Intersecting Spectacles in the Global Cold War." 18. "Reenacting Bodily Archives of the Cold War in Lola Arias's Minefield." 19. Afterword