TY - GEN digital ID - 131677858 TI - Political and Cultural Perceptions of George Orwell : British and American Views PY - 2017 SN - 9781349952540 PB - New York Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot DB - UniCat KW - Journalism KW - Sociology of cultural policy KW - Politics KW - Literature KW - History KW - communisme KW - cultuurbeleid KW - geschiedenis KW - literatuur KW - politiek KW - journalisten KW - wereldpolitiek KW - Orwell, George KW - anno 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131677858 AB - This book analyzes George Orwell’s politics and their reception across both sides of the Atlantic. It considers Orwell’s place in the politics of his native Britain and his reception in the USA, where he has had some of his most fervent emulators, exegetists, and detractors. Written by an ex “teenage Maoist” from Liverpool, UK, who now lives and writes in New York, the book points out how often the different strands of opinion derive from “ancestral” ideological struggles within the Communist/Trotskyist movement in the 30’s, and how these often overlook or indeed consciously ignore the indigenous British politics and sociology that did so much to influence Orwell’s political and literary development. It examines in the modern era what Orwell did in his–the seductions of simplistic and absolutist ideologies for some intellectuals, especially in their reactions to Orwell himself. ER -