The ethnic avant-garde : minority cultures and world revolution /

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During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called ;the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Steven S. (Steven Sunwoo), 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Modernist latitudes.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > United States > History > 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
American literature > Russian influences.
Intercultural communication > United States > History > 20th century.
Intercultural communication > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Influence russe.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature > Minority authors
American literature > Russian influences
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Intellectual life
Intercultural communication
Race relations
Literaturbeziehungen
Kulturbeziehungen
Avantgardeliteratur
Minderheitenliteratur
Amerikansk litteratur > historia.
Minoritetsförfattare.
Avantgarde (estetik)
Ryska influenser.
Kulturmöten i litteraturen.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Soviet Union > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life > 1917-1970.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
URSS > Vie intellectuelle > 1917-1970.
Soviet Union
United States
Sowjetunion
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Translating the Ethnic Avant-Garde; 2. The Avant-Garde's Asia: Factography and Roar China; 3. From Avant-Garde to Authentic: Revisiting Langston Hughes's "Moscow Movie"; 4. Cold War Pluralism: The New York Intellectuals Respond to Soviet Anti-Semitism; Afterword: Chinese Communism, Cultural Revolution, and American Multiculturalism; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Credits and Permissions; Index.

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