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State Sponsored Literature - Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Hardcover)
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State Sponsored Literature - Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the
expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy
that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature,
Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major material
condition of literature, even as its efforts were relative,
partial, and prone to disruption. Drawing from neglected and
occasionally unexpected archives, she shows how the state became an
integral and conflicted custodian of literary freedom in the
postcolonial world as beliefs about literature's 'public' were
radically challenged by the unrivalled migration to Britain at the
end of Empire. State Sponsored Literature retells the story of
literature's place in post-war Britain through original analysis of
the institutional forces behind canon-formation and contestation,
from the literature programmes of the British Council and Arts
Council and the UK's fraught relations with UNESCO, to GCSE
literature anthologies and the origins of The Satanic Verses in
migrant Camden. The state did not shape literary production in a
vacuum, Rogers argues, but its policies, practices, and priorities
were also inexorably shaped in turn. Demonstrating how archival
work can potentially transform our understanding of literature,
this book challenges how we think about literature's value by
asking what state involvement has meant for writers, readers,
institutions, and the ideal of autonomy itself.
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