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Benjamin Balthaser - Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Class : Culture) - 9780472119714 - V9780472119714
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Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Class : Culture)

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Description for Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Class : Culture) Hardcover. A unique excavation of how U.S. cross-border, anti-imperialist movements shaped cultural modernism Series: Class: Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBTR; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.

Anti-Imperialist Modernism excavates how U.S. cross-border, multi-ethnic anti-imperialist movements at mid-century shaped what we understand as cultural modernism and the historical period of the Great Depression. The book demonstrates how U.S. multiethnic cultural movements, located in political parties, small journals, labor unions, and struggles for racial liberation, helped construct a common sense of international solidarity that critiqued ideas of nationalism and essentialized racial identity. The book thus moves beyond accounts that have tended to view the pre-war “Popular Front” through tropes of national belonging or an abandonment of the cosmopolitanism of previous decades. Impressive archival research brings to light the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Class: Culture
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119714
SKU
V9780472119714
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Ref
99-15

About Benjamin Balthaser
Benjamin Balthaser is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University South Bend.

Reviews for Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Class : Culture)
“Wonderfully innovative and refreshing explorations of U.S. literary radicalism, covering little-known fiction, drama, film, journalism, and more . . . Balthaser combines meticulous research with sensitive analysis as well as moments of elegant and lucid prose. His insights can be surprising and disconcerting. With sobering observations, he demonstrates compelling new ways of understanding the Left and U.S culture. There is ... Read more

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