Comintern Aesthetics

Amelia Glaser, Steven S. Lee (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

592 Seiten

2020
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0465-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting against imperialism and racism in settings as varied as Ireland, India, the United States, and China. Notoriously, and from the organization’s outset, these causes grew ever more subservient to Soviet state interest and Stalinist centralization.

Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have persisted, even after the Comintern’s demise in 1943. Tracing these networks through a multiplicity of artistic forms geared towards advancing a common, liberated humanity, this volume captures both the failure and the enduring allure of a Soviet-centred world revolution.

The sixteen chapters in this edited volume examine cultural and revolutionary circuits that once connected Moscow to China, Southeast Asia, India, the Near East, Eastern Europe, Germany, Spain, and the Americas. The Soviet Union of the interwar years provided a template for the convergence of party politics and cultural history, but the volume traces how this template was adapted and reworked around the world. By emphasizing the shared Soviet routes of these far-flung circuits, Comintern Aesthetics recaptures a long-lost moment in which cultures could not only transform perception but also highlight alternatives to capitalism – namely, an anti-colonial world imaginary foregrounding race, class, and gender equality.

Amelia M. Glaser is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Steven S. Lee is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	100 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 234 mm
Gewicht	920 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4875-0465-9 / 1487504659
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0465-6 / 9781487504656
Zustand	Neuware