Reading the Postwar Future

Textual Turning Points from 1944

By: Kirrily Freeman (Editor), John Munro (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 October 2019

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264 Pages

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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 1944âs 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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This outstanding collection of essays engages with a variety of texts, broadly conceived, that mark the distinct character of 1944. It is an interdisciplinary and international volume that assesses the way in which the selected texts set out the crisis constituted by '1944' and examines their visions for a postwar world that went beyond what had preceded it. The scope and range of the contributions is exciting, intriguing, and innovative. The conversations between the chapters, which the volume curates around the themes of representation, decolonization, reconstruction, and emancipation, are truly thought-provoking.
Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, University of Sussex, UK

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