".Goulding traces the afterlife of Muktibodh's works to demonstrate how his literary output became prophetic of 1970s and 80s India characterized by major political upheavals like the internal emergency and civil unrest movements. Simultaneously, he addresses an epistemic crisis in postcolonial literary criticism that often overlooks the significance of vernacular literary cultural outputs." -- South Asian Review "Gregory Goulding boldly intervenes in global modernist studies, making a case for Hindi literature's contradictory internationalism through his nuanced exploration of the towering poet Muktibodh's work and reception. Moving across Hindi and Marathi, Goulding tracks the multilingual emergence of the Hindi long poem and illuminates, for the first time, how this genre functioned as a crucial node for navigating Cold War realism-modernism divides and the contestations they raised about the functions of prose and poetry." -- Preetha Mani, Rutgers University, New Burnswick " Cold War Genres is part of an important and ongoing effort to recognize the cosmopolitanism of regional Indian literatures that have long been ignored by literary scholars under the shadow of Anglophone writing. Goulding engages Hindi literary history, global literary politics, and debates around literary form, realism, and the 'proper' aims of literature. The field is in need of these sorts of nuanced scholarly treatments of vernacular literary histories and archives in India that trace the particular pathways of transnational political and aesthetic exchange.

" -- Laura Brueck, Northwestern University " Cold War Genres provides an astute and historically contextualized reading of Muktibodh and his reception, working across the genres of his writing. The scholarship is sound and insightful, and the readings of Muktibodh's poetry are innovative and contribute greatly to our understanding of one of modern Hindi's most alluring poets." -- A. Sean Pue, Michigan State University.