Reading the Postwar Future
Textual Turning Points from 1944
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2019
264 pages
978-1-350-10260-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
5 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-10260-6 (9781350102606)
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06/2021
Bloomsbury Academic
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Persons
Kirrily Freeman is Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Canada. Her publications include Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1940-1944 (2009).
John Munro is Lecturer of US History at the University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonization, 1945-1960 (2017).
John Munro is Lecturer of US History at the University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonization, 1945-1960 (2017).
Content
Introduction, Kirrily Freeman (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Representations
1. Remastering the soundtrack of a clash of titans: Polanyi's The Great Transformation and Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba, Canada)
2. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Origin stories of Western Marxism, Michael D'Arcy (Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada)
3. Britain, Europe, and the borders of markets: TS Eliot and F. Hayek on postwar internationalism
Luke Foster (University of Chicago, USA)
Decolonizations
4. "Meet the new empire, same as the old empire": Visions and realities of French imperial policy in 1944, Sarah Frank (University of St. Andrews, UK)
5. "Village Life and How to Improve It": Textual routes of community development in the late British empire, Radhika Natarajan (Reed College, USA)
6. Capitalism and Slavery as a decolonial text: Looking back to look forward, Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Reconstructions
7. Projecting gender and emotion in 1944 Japan: Young women and affect in Kurosawa Akira's The Most Beautiful, Chikako Nagayama (Nagoya University, Japan)
8. 1944: The launch of the Allied film campaign for civilian relief, Suzanne Langlois (Glendon College, York University, Canada)
9. Champions of dignity? The 1944 Democratic Party Platform, Katherine Rye Jewell (Fitchburg State University, USA)
Emancipations
10. Looking backward and forward from African America in 1944: WEB du Bois' "My Evolving Program for Negro Freedom", Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University, Canada)
11. Back to the future in Howard Fast's Freedom Road, Alan Wald (University of Michigan, USA)
12. "Serve the People:" An Exemplary Chinese Socialist Text of 1944, Rebecca E. Karl (New York University, USA)
Conclusion, John Munro (University of Birmingham, UK)
Index
Representations
1. Remastering the soundtrack of a clash of titans: Polanyi's The Great Transformation and Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba, Canada)
2. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Origin stories of Western Marxism, Michael D'Arcy (Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada)
3. Britain, Europe, and the borders of markets: TS Eliot and F. Hayek on postwar internationalism
Luke Foster (University of Chicago, USA)
Decolonizations
4. "Meet the new empire, same as the old empire": Visions and realities of French imperial policy in 1944, Sarah Frank (University of St. Andrews, UK)
5. "Village Life and How to Improve It": Textual routes of community development in the late British empire, Radhika Natarajan (Reed College, USA)
6. Capitalism and Slavery as a decolonial text: Looking back to look forward, Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Reconstructions
7. Projecting gender and emotion in 1944 Japan: Young women and affect in Kurosawa Akira's The Most Beautiful, Chikako Nagayama (Nagoya University, Japan)
8. 1944: The launch of the Allied film campaign for civilian relief, Suzanne Langlois (Glendon College, York University, Canada)
9. Champions of dignity? The 1944 Democratic Party Platform, Katherine Rye Jewell (Fitchburg State University, USA)
Emancipations
10. Looking backward and forward from African America in 1944: WEB du Bois' "My Evolving Program for Negro Freedom", Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University, Canada)
11. Back to the future in Howard Fast's Freedom Road, Alan Wald (University of Michigan, USA)
12. "Serve the People:" An Exemplary Chinese Socialist Text of 1944, Rebecca E. Karl (New York University, USA)
Conclusion, John Munro (University of Birmingham, UK)
Index
