Using the critical tools of ideology critique and the poetics of historiography, the author interrogates Moses Coady's famous text Masters of their own destiny published in 1939. The author analyses the class and cultural constraints on the crafting of Masters of their own destiny and explicates the poetics of this deceptively simple text to reveal its significance for the present.
Decoding Coady: Masters of their own destiny under critical scrutiny
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