The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution 9780231540117

The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively

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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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The Ethnic Avant-Garde

Modernist Latitudes Jessica Berman and Paul Saint-Amour, Editors

Modernist Latitudes JESSICA BERMAN AND PAUL SAINT-AMOUR, EDITORS Modernist Latitudes aims to capture the energy and ferment of modernist studies by continuing to open up the range of forms, locations, WHPSRUDOLWLHV DQG WKHRUHWLFDO DSSURDFKHV HQFRPSDVVHG E\ WKH ϮHOG The series celebrates the growing latitude (“scope for freedom of acWLRQ RU WKRXJKWµ WKDW WKLV EURDGHQLQJ DϸRUGV VFKRODUV RI PRGHUQism, whether they are investigating little-known works or revisiting FDQRQLFDO RQHV 0RGHUQLVW /DWLWXGHV ZLOO SD\ SDUWLFXODU DWWHQWLRQ WR the texts and contexts of those latitudes (Africa, Latin America, Australia, Asia, Southern Europe, and even the rural United States) that have long been misrecognized as ancillary to the canonical modernisms of WKHJOREDO1RUWK Barry McCrea, In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, 2011 Jessica Berman, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism, 2011 Jennifer Scappettone, Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, 2014 Nico Israel, Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art, 2015 Carrie Noland, Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime, 2015

The Ethnic AvantGarde Minority Cultures and World Revolution

STEVEN S. LEE Columbia University Press New York

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