UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary Brouillette Hardback John Wiley & Sons

UNESCO and the Fate of the LiteraryAuthor(s): Sarah Brouillette\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503609952, 978-1503609952\nSynopsis\nA case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identifies three phases in the agency's history and explores the literary and cultural programming of each. In the immediate postwar period, healthy economies made possible the funding of an infrastructure in support of a liberal cosmopolitanism and the spread of capitalist democracy. In the decolonizing 1960s and '70s, illiteracy and lack of access to literature were lamented as a \""book hunger\"" in the developing world, and reading was touted as a universal humanizing value to argue for a more ba.