Title The racial imaginary of the Cold War kitchen : from Sokolʹniki Park to Chicago's South Side / Kate A. Baldwin

Published Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies Contents Introduction: Cold War, hot kitchen -- Envy and other warm guns : Ray and Charles Eames at the American National Exhibition in Moscow -- Reframing the Cold War kitchen : Sylvia Plath, Byt, and the radical imaginary of The bell jar -- Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya, and the conditions of Cold War womanhood -- Lorraine Hansberry and the social life of emotions -- Selling the homeland : Silk Stockings, stilyagi, and style -- Epilogue: A kitchen in history Summary "A study of the ways in which the kitchen was used as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War, particularly in regard to issues of feminism and race"--Provided by publisher "Race, domesticity, and consumerism in the Cold War era. This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen--the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism--was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen debate, Baldwin shows how Nixon turned the kitchen into a space of exception, while contemporary writers, artists, and activists depicted it as a site of cultural resistance. Focusing on a wide variety of literature and media from the United States and the Soviet Union, Baldwin reveals how the binary logic at work in Nixon's discourse--setting U.S. freedom against Soviet totalitarianism--erased the histories of slavery, gender subordination, colonialism, and racial genocide. The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen treats the kitchen as symptomatic of these erasures, connecting issues of race, gender, and social difference across national boundaries. This rich and rewarding study--embracing the literature, film, and photography of the era--will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars"--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Cold War -- Political aspects Propaganda -- History -- 20th century Kitchens -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Kitchens -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History Race -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Sex role -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Kitchens in literature. Kitchens -- In mass media POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. International relations Kitchens in literature Propaganda Race -- Political aspects Sex role -- Political aspects United States -- Relations -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Relations -- United States Soviet Union United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015046710 ISBN 9781611688641 1611688647

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