TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Steven S.
TI  - The ethnic avant-garde: minority cultures and world revolution 
T2  - Modernist latitudes
SN  - 9780231540117
AV  - PS153.M56 L465 2015eb
U1  - 810.9/920693 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Minority authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Russian influences
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Littérature américaine
KW  - Auteurs issus des minorités
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Influence russe
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - African American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Literaturbeziehungen
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kulturbeziehungen
KW  - Avantgardeliteratur
KW  - Minderheitenliteratur
KW  - Amerikansk litteratur
KW  - historia
KW  - sao
KW  - Minoritetsförfattare
KW  - Avantgarde (estetik)
KW  - Ryska influenser
KW  - Kulturmöten i litteraturen
KW  - 1917-1970
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - URSS
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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 #x93;the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art histo
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