When the Personal is Geopolitical: Revisiting Cold War Literary Production

How did the global ideological conflict between superpowers during the Cold War shape literary production? How was freedom or constraint imagined and rendered? This panel solicits new appraisals of the affective geopolitics of the period.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026

Arthur Redding, York University (aredding@yorku.ca )