FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W82147444> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W82147444 startingPage "75" @default.
• W82147444 abstract "This article explores the process through which British colonialism was rearticulated by the institutions and discourses of American anti-communism. Focusing on George Orwell, the author provides critical account of the British and governments' efforts to advance the distribution of George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four--through adaptations, translations, films, cartoons, and subventions. The article concludes that these endeavors did less to disseminate cultural values, than they did to reproduce existing social relationships. ********** For decades, George Orwell's blue quarto notebook, filled with the names of one hundred and thirty-five crypto-communists and fellow travelers, languished, mostly unexamined, in the George Orwell Archives in London, attracting only passing interest from the few scholars granted permission by Orwell's estate to examine the material. In his 1980 biography of Orwell, Bernard Crick, for example, made only brief allusion to the list, writing that Orwell worried about infiltration ... and kept notebook of suspects. (1) Many of those listed, Crick said, plausible as possible underground or front members, but few seem far-fetched and unlikely. (2) A decade later, Orwell's authorized biographer Michael Shelden speculated that Orwell was engaged in continuous exercise of determining who was sincere and who was not. The notebook was primarily to satisfy [Orwell's] own curiosity, Shelden wrote. (3) The notebook included the names of those whom Orwell suspected of having affiliations with the Communist Party, or sympathies with the idea of communism. (4) Among them, he mentioned poets such as Stephen Spender, whom he described as sentimental [communist] sympathizer, very unreliable, and easily influenced. (5) George Bernard Shaw was, he wrote, no sort of tie-up, but reliably on all major issues. (6) The historian A. J. P. Taylor was anti-American; Isaac Deutcher was a sympathizer; Richard Crossman was political climber and too dishonest to be an outright f[ellow] t[raveler]; J. B. Priestley was a strong sympathizer, very anti-USA, and makes huge sums of money in the USSR. (7) The Scottish poet Hugh McDiarmid was reliably pro-Russian and very anti-English. C. Day Lewis was not completely reliable and the Irish playwright, Sean O'Casey, was very stupid. (8) Orwell's notebook of crypto-communists and fellow-travelers inscribed communism in the form of various threats to the homogeneity of English culture. He observed, for example, that the historian Isaac Deutcher was Polish Jew; that Ian Mikardo, columnist at the Tribune, was silly and Jewish; that the writer Cedric Dover was Eurasian; that Paul Robeson was US Negro and very anti-white; that the MP Konni Zilliacus was Finnish and Jewish; that the biologist J. D. Bernal was Irish; that Louis Adamic was Jugo-Slav and very anti-British; that Vera Dean was Russian; and that the French intellectual E. Mounier, author of La Pensee de Charles Peguy (1931) was slimy. (9) Indeed, Orwell once wrote to his friend Dwight McDonald that he could smell crypto-communist. (10) Irish and Scottish writers, such as Sean O'Casey, Liam O'Flaherty, and Hugh McDiarmid, were recast and refashioned as communist threats: think we should pay more attention to the small but violent separatist movements which exist within our own island, Orwell wrote in 1946; They may look unimportant now, but, after all, the Communist Manifesto was once an obscure document, and the Nazi party had only six members when Hitler joined it. (11) From the one hundred and thirty-five names in the notebook, Orwell drew up more limited list of thirty-five, which he sent to the Information Research Department (IRD) on May 2, 1949. (12) It isn't sensational and I don't suppose it will tell your friends anything they don't know, he wrote the IRD; At the same time it isn't bad idea to have the people who are probably unreliable listed. …" @default.
• W82147444 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W82147444 creator A5072635533 @default.
• W82147444 date "2008-01-01" @default.
• W82147444 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W82147444 title "Orwell and Empire: Anti-Communism and the Globalization of Literature" @default.
• W82147444 hasPublicationYear "2008" @default.
• W82147444 type Work @default.
• W82147444 sameAs 82147444 @default.
• W82147444 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W82147444 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W82147444 hasAuthorship W82147444A5072635533 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C2777914595 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C33435437 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C520712124 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C52119013 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C531593650 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C542948173 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C67101536 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C74916050 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C77805123 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W82147444 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C124952713 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C142362112 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C144024400 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C15744967 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C17744445 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C199539241 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C2777914595 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C33435437 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C520712124 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C52119013 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C531593650 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C542948173 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C67101536 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C74916050 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C77805123 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C94625758 @default.
• W82147444 hasConceptScore W82147444C95457728 @default.
• W82147444 hasIssue "28" @default.
• W82147444 hasLocation W821474441 @default.
• W82147444 hasOpenAccess W82147444 @default.
• W82147444 hasPrimaryLocation W821474441 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W110881761 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W1134262665 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W147543028 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W1491469260 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W1516885641 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W1977337576 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W1993612651 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2034623317 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2188300073 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2315983474 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2470924402 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2490999774 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2563301979 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W261775817 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W270418377 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2978578556 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W3014197270 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W3148893721 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W321884824 @default.
• W82147444 hasRelatedWork W2186180113 @default.
• W82147444 isParatext "false" @default.
• W82147444 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W82147444 magId "82147444" @default.
• W82147444 workType "article" @default.