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List of contents
I Introduction
II Eastern and Southern Paradigms of Socialist Aesthetics
1. Fin de siècle Socialist Realism: Aesthetics of Socialism in Eastern Europe and the USSR After Stalin
Evgeny Dobrenko
2. African Socialist Cultural Policy: Senegal under Senghor, 1960-1980
Joshua I. Cohen
3. Socialist Village Stories in Global Perspective
Marcus Twellmann
4. Non-Terminality and 'Utopia' in African Socialist Drama
Victor S. Dugga
5.‘Gutsaruzhinji’: Schizophrenic-Hypocrisy and the Failure of Socialism in Zimbabwe
Nyasha Mboti
6. Political Iconography in Artistic Practice in Socialist Angola and Mozambique
Nadine Siegert
7. Afrobeat Utopia and the Ghosts of Empire
Saheed Yinka Adejumobi
III Contradicting Contacts: Cooperation, Representation, Discrimination
8. The Early Soviet Critique of Bourgeois Orientalism as a Precondition for Postcolonial Studies: The Case of Indology
Craig Brandist
9. José Manuel Prieto between Cuban and Soviet Magical Realism?
Susanne Frank
10. Soviet Assistance in Film Industry Development in Africa and for Africans (1960s-1980s)
Gabrielle Chomentowski
11. Socialist African Artists in International Perspective
Bärbel Küster
12. Socialist Exchange, or Socialist Orientalism? Polish Reporters on India
Agnieszka Sadecka
13. The Socialist Experiment in Africa in the Soviet Press 1960-1961
Svetlana Boltovskaja
14."Maće, idem kod Kljuza!": Everyday Racism in Non-Aligned Yugoslavia
Davor Beganović
15. Senghor and Sembene – Soviet Culture’s Split Appropriation of Socialism in Africa
Gesine Drews-Sylla
About the author
Dr Gesine Drews-Sylla is in the Slavic Department, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Summary
This book charts the development of the contemporary Western European radical left party family over the period 1989-2014.
