Reading the postwar future : textual turning points from 1944 / Kirrily Freeman, John Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Kirrily, author.

Munro, John, 1971- author.

Language:

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Nineteen forty-four, A.D.

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Influence.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Other Title:

Textual turning points from 1944

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual turning point when overlapping and diverging visions of a new world emerged. The questions posed at that moment, about capitalism, race, empire, nation and cultural modernity gave rise to debates that defined the global politics of their era and continue to delineate our own. Highlighting the goals, agendas and priorities that emerged for artists, intellectuals and politicians in 1944, Reading the Postwar Future rethinks the intellectual history of the 20th century and the way 1944's texts shaped the contours of the postwar world. This is essential reading for any student or scholar of the intellectual, political, economic and cultural history of the postwar era"--Bloomsbury Collections.

Contents:

Dedication ; Figures ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction / Kirrily Freeman

Part 1. Representations : Chapter 1. Remastering the Soundtrack of a Clash of Titans: Polanyi's The Great Transformation and Hayek's The Road to Serfdom / Radhika Desai ; Chapter 2. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Origin Stories of Western Marxism / Michael D'Arcy ; Chapter 3. Britain, Europe, and the Borders of Markets: T. S. Eliot and F. A. Hayek on Postwar Internationalism / Luke Foster

Part 2. Decolonizations : Chapter 4. "Meet the New Empire, Same as the Old Empire": Visions and Realities of French Imperial Policy in 1944 / Sarah Frank ; Chapter 5. "Village Life and How to Improve It": Textual Routes of Community Development in the Late British Empire / Radhika Natarajan ; Chapter 6. Capitalism and Slavery as a Decolonial Text: Looking Back to Look Forward / Ajay Parasram.

Part 3. Reconstructions : Chapter 7. Projecting Gender and Emotion in 1944 Japan: Young Women and Affect in Kurosawa Akira's The Most Beautiful / Chikako Nagayama ; Chapter 8. 1944: The Launch of the Allied Film Campaign for Civilian Relief / Suzanne Langlois ; Chapter 9. Champions of Dignity? The 1944 Democratic Party Platform / Katherine Rye Jewell

Part 4. Emancipations: Chapter 10. Looking Backward and Forward from African America in 1944: W. E. B. Du Bois's "My Evolving Program for Negro Freedom" / Chike Jeffers ; Chapter 11. Back to the Future in Howard Fast's Freedom Road / Alan M. Wald ; Chapter 12. "Serve the People": An Exemplary Chinese Socialist Text of 1944 / Rebecca E. Karl ; Conclusion / John Munro

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 29, 2019)

Other Format:

Print version: Freeman, Kirrily. Reading the postwar future : textual turning points from 1944.

ISBN:

9781350106734

OCLC:

1122922443

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781350106734

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