Comintern aesthetics

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Chronology: Comintern Aesthetics – Between Politics and Culture
Editors’ Note
Introduction: Comintern Aesthetics – Space, Form, History
	Interwar/Postwar, East/West, Modernism/Realism
	Organization of the Volume
	NOTES
PART ONE: Space: Geopoetics, Networks, Translation
	Chapter One: World Literature as World Revolution: Velimir Khlebnikov’s Zangezi and the Utopian Geopoetics of the Russian Avant-Garde
		World Literature: Beyond the Nation and the Market
		The Utopian Geopoetics of the Russian Avant-Garde
		Between Totalization and Rupture: The Mediating Function of Geopoetics
		1920: Uneven Development and the Eastward Turn of the Comintern
		Khlebnikov in Baku, or the Utopian Geopoetics of Eurasia
		Khlebnikov’s Zangezi and the Legacy of Tatlin
		Zangezi: A World-Text
		NOTES
	Chapter Two: Berlin–Moscow–Shanghai: Translating Revolution across Cultures in the Aftermath of the 1927 Shanghai Debacle
		NOTES
	Chapter Three: India–England–Russia: The Comintern Translated
		NOTES
	Chapter Four: Seeing the World Anew: Soviet Cinema and the Reorganization of 1930s Spanish Film Culture
		The PCE and the Comintern in Context
		A Transversal Fascination: The Comintern and Intellectual Circles
		Learning Revolutionary Aesthetics; the Appeal of Soviet Cinema in Spain
		Film Clubs and the Bourgeois Introduction of Soviet Films in Spain
		Soviet Cinema and the Synthesis of Education and Emotion
		Nuestro Cinema and the Organization of a New Spanish Film Culture
		Conclusion
		NOTES
	Chapter Five: The Panorama and the Pilgrimage: Brazilian Modernism, the Masses, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s
		Patrícia Galvão: Print Culture, the Proletarian Novel, and a Global Mass Aesthetic
		Tarsila do Amaral: Painting and Pilgrimage
		Conclusion: Cinema and the Afterlives of the Soviet Avant-Gardes
		NOTES
	Chapter Six: Polycentric Cosmopolitans: Writing World Literature in Indonesia and Vietnam, 1920s to 1950s and Beyond
		World Republic of Letters or Writers’ International?
		Polycentric Cosmopolitans
		The Question of Translation
		Mayakovsky in Hanoi, Gorky in Jakarta
		NOTES
PART TWO: Form: Beyond Realism-versus-Modernism and Art-versus-Propaganda
	Chapter Seven: Culture One and a Half
		The Communist Intranational
		An Engineer of the Human Soul
		NOTES
	Chapter Eight: Street Theatre and Subject Formation in Wartime China: Origins of a New Public Art
		Divergent Visions of a Public Theatre
		Moving from Stage to Street
		The Nation as Stage and Spectacle
		Conclusion: A Paradigmatic Course of Action
		NOTES
	Chapter Nine: In the Shadow of the Inquisition: The Spanish Civil War in Yiddish Poetry
		Introduction: Spain – Past, Present, and Future
		Past
		Present
		Future
		Epilogue: Spain to the Second World War
		NOTES
	Chapter Ten: “Beaten, but Unbeatable”: On Langston Hughes’s Black Leninism
		“What Kind of Poem”
		“Black, Beaten, but Unbeatable Throats”
		“Like a Flag”
		“Marx Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin Worker ME!”
		The Party between Darkness and the Dawn
		NOTES
	Chapter Eleven: A Comintern Aesthetics of Anti-racism in the Animated Short Film
		Mobilizing Mayakovsky
		Black Labour
		Black Consciousness
		NOTES
PART THREE: History: Beyond the Interwar Years – Afterlives of Comintern Aesthetics
	Chapter Twelve: The Revolutionary Romanticism of Alice Childress’s “Conversations from Life”
		NOTES
	Chapter Thirteen: When Comintern and Cominform Aesthetics Meet: Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe, 1956 and Beyond
		The Cominform’s Institutional Aesthetics
		The Yugoslav Factor
		The Polish Challenge
		The Hungarian Explosion
		The Soviet Response
		NOTES
	Chapter Fourteeen: Visions of the Future: Soviet Art, Architecture, and Film during and after the Comintern Years
		NOTES
	Chapter Fifteen: Comintern Media Experiments, Leftist Exile, and World Literature from East Berlin
		Radio Days
		Émigré Media Culture: Mezhrabpom and After
		Internaional literature, Communist Diaspora, and World Literature as Decolonization
		The Aerial: Media Discourse and Discontents
		NOTES
	Chapter Sixteen: Workers of the World, Unite!
		New Worker Art Troupe
		World Factory by Grass Stage
		NOTES
Coda
	NOTES
Contributors
Index