Glaser A., Lee S.S. (eds.) Comintern Aesthetics

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 581 p.Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have continued, even after its demise in 1943.Chronology: Comintern Aesthetics – Between Politics and Culture
Editors’ Note
Introduction: Comintern Aesthetics – Space, Form, History
Space: Geopoetics, Networks, Translation
World Literature as World Revolution: Velimir Khlebnikov’s Zangezi and the Utopian Geopoetics of the Russian Avant-Garde
Berlin–Moscow–Shanghai: Translating Revolution across Cultures in the Aftermath of the 1927 Shanghai Debacle
India–England–Russia: The Comintern Translated
Seeing the World Anew: Soviet Cinema and the Reorganization of 1930s Spanish Film Culture
The Panorama and the Pilgrimage: Brazilian Modernism, the Masses, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s
Polycentric Cosmopolitans: Writing World Literature in Indonesia and Vietnam, 1920s to 1950s and Beyond
Form: Beyond Realism-versus-Modernism and Art-versus-Propaganda
Culture One and a Half
Street Theatre and Subject Formation in Wartime China: Origins of a New Public Art
In the Shadow of the Inquisition: The Spanish Civil War in Yiddish Poetry
“Beaten, but Unbeatable”: On Langston Hughes’s Black Leninism
A Comintern Aesthetics of Anti-racism in the Animated Short Film Blek end uait
History: Beyond the Interwar Years – Afterlives of Comintern Aesthetics
The Revolutionary Romanticism of Alice Childress’s “Conversations from Life”
When Comintern and Cominform Aesthetics Meet: Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe, 1956 and Beyond
Visions of the Future: Soviet Art, Architecture, and Film during and after the Comintern Years
Comintern Media Experiments, Leftist Exile, and World Literature from East Berlin
Workers of the World, Unite!
Coda
Contributors
Index