Reading the Postwar Future - Textual Turning Points from 1944

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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• Authors: Kirrily Freeman, Kirrily (Associate Professor of History Freeman, Kirrily Munro Freeman, John Munro
• Assisted by: Kirrily Freeman (Editor), Freeman Kirrily (Editor), John Munro (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781350102583
• ISBN: 978-1-350-10258-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General