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Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have continued, even after its demise in 1943.
List of contents
List of Illustrations Chronology: Comintern Aesthetics - Between Politics and Culture
Dominick Lawton
Editors’ Note Introduction: Comintern Aesthetics - Space, Form, History
Steven S. Lee
Part One. Space: Geopoetics, Networks, Translation 1. World Literature as World Revolution: Velimir Khlebnikov’s
Zangezi and the Utopian Geopoetics of the Russian Avant-Garde
Harsha Ram
2. Berlin-Moscow-Shanghai: Translating Revolution across Cultures in the Aftermath of the 1927 Shanghai Debacle
Katerina Clark
3. India-England-Russia: The Comintern Translated
Snehal Shingavi
4. Seeing the World Anew: Soviet Cinema and the Reorganization of 1930s Spanish Film Culture
Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez and Masha Salazkina
5. The Panorama and the Pilgrimage: Brazilian Modernism, the Masses, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s
Sarah Ann Wells
6. Polycentric Cosmopolitans: Writing World Literature in Indonesia and Vietnam, 1920s to 1950s and Beyond
Tony Day
Part Two. Form: Beyond Realism-versus-Modernism and Art-versus-Propaganda 7. Culture One and a Half
Nariman Skakov
8. Street Theatre and Subject Formation in Wartime China: Origins of a New Public Art
Xiaobing Tang
9. In the Shadow of the Inquisition: The Spanish Civil War in Yiddish Poetry
Amelia M. Glaser
10. "Beaten, but Unbeatable": On Langston Hughes’s Black Leninism
Jonathan Flatley
11. A Comintern Aesthetics of Anti-racism in the Animated Short Film
Blek end uait
Christina Kiaer
Part Three. History: Beyond the Interwar Years - Afterlives of Comintern Aesthetics 12. The Revolutionary Romanticism of Alice Childress’s "Conversations from Life"
Kate Baldwin
13. When Comintern and Cominform Aesthetics Meet: Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe, 1956 and Beyond
Evgeny Dobrenko
14. Visions of the Future: Soviet Art, Architecture, and Film during and after the Comintern Years
Vladimir Paperny and Marina Khrustaleva
15. Comintern Media Experiments, Leftist Exile, and World Literature from East Berlin
Katie Trumpener
16. Workers of the World, Unite!
Bo Zheng
Coda
Steven S. Lee and Amelia M. Glaser
Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Amelia M. Glaser and Steven S. Lee
Summary
Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have continued, even after its demise in 1943.
