{"product_id":"comintern-aesthetics-hardback-9781487504656","title":"Comintern Aesthetics (Hardback) 9781487504656","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eComintern Aesthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmelia Glaser (Edited by), Steven S. Lee (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487504656\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e592 pages, 100 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16 x 4.3 cm, 0.92 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the best collection of essays this reviewer has read in recent years. It has been doomed to success by its very conception—an account of the body of cultural production, and especially literature, inspired and in some cases enabled, by the international communist movement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Rossen Djagalov (\u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review, Vol. 80, No. 3\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"I would highly recommend this volume not only to specialists in aesthetics and poetics but also to a wider audience interested in deepening its knowledge about international communism in the twentieth century. In broader Comintern literature, I would argue that this volume is positioned well within the connections between the Soviet central machine and the geographically widespread writers, artists, communists, and activists who plugged into Comintern aesthetics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Vsevolod Kritskiy, University of Amsterdam (\u003cem\u003eH-Russia\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded 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\u0026amp;#x2019;s outset, these causes grew ever more subservient to Soviet state interest and Stalinist centralization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComintern Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have persisted, even after the Comintern\u0026amp;#x2019;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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003cem\u003eComintern Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChronology: Comintern Aesthetics – Between Politics and Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eDominick Lawton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditors\u0026amp;#x2019; Note\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Comintern Aesthetics – Space, Form, History\u003cbr\u003eSteven S. Lee\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One. Space: Geopoetics, Networks, Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. World Literature as World Revolution: Velimir Khlebnikov\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eZangezi \u003c\/i\u003eand the Utopian Geopoetics of the Russian Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003eHarsha Ram\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Berlin–Moscow–Shanghai: Translating Revolution across Cultures in the Aftermath of the 1927 Shanghai Debacle\u003cbr\u003eKaterina Clark\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. India–England–Russia: The Comintern Translated\u003cbr\u003eSnehal Shingavi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Seeing the World Anew: Soviet Cinema and the Reorganization of 1930s Spanish Film Culture\u003cbr\u003eEnrique Fibla-Gutiérrez and Masha Salazkina\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Panorama and the Pilgrimage: Brazilian Modernism, the Masses, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s\u003cbr\u003eSarah Ann Wells\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Polycentric Cosmopolitans: Writing World Literature in Indonesia and Vietnam, 1920s to 1950s and Beyond\u003cbr\u003eTony Day\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two. Form: Beyond Realism-versus-Modernism and Art-versus-Propaganda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Culture One and a Half\u003cbr\u003eNariman Skakov\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Street Theatre and Subject Formation in Wartime China: Origins of a New Public Art\u003cbr\u003eXiaobing Tang\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. In the Shadow of the Inquisition: The Spanish Civil War in Yiddish Poetry\u003cbr\u003eAmelia M. Glaser\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \"Beaten, but Unbeatable\": On Langston Hughes\u0026amp;#x2019;s Black Leninism\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Flatley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. A Comintern Aesthetics of Anti-racism in the Animated Short Film \u003ci\u003eBlek end uait\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChristina Kiaer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three. History: Beyond the Interwar Years – Afterlives of Comintern Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Revolutionary Romanticism of Alice Childress\u0026amp;#x2019;s \"Conversations from Life\"\u003cbr\u003eKate Baldwin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. When Comintern and Cominform Aesthetics Meet: Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe, 1956 and Beyond\u003cbr\u003eEvgeny Dobrenko\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Visions of the Future: Soviet Art, Architecture, and Film during and after the Comintern Years\u003cbr\u003eVladimir Paperny and Marina Khrustaleva\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Comintern Media Experiments, Leftist Exile, and World Literature from East Berlin\u003cbr\u003eKatie Trumpener\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Workers of the World, Unite!\u003cbr\u003eBo Zheng\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSteven S. Lee and Amelia M. 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