Comintern Aesthetics

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-Gutierrez 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

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Communist International; Comintern; Soviet culture; transnational literature; translocal studies; Marxism; critical race studies; American Studies; literature; Lenin; proletarian struggle; aesthetics