| Description |
1 online resource (448 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Eurasia without borders? -- I. First Steps, 1919-1930: Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet of the new millennium -- Revolutionary poetry and the Persianate tradition -- Across the Great Divide to Afghanistan -- India's place in Eurasian cultural geographies -- The "roar" of revolution in the Far East -- II. The commons within sight, 1930-1943: From Shanghai to Berlin and beyond -- Mulk Raj Anand and the London literary left -- The Sino-Japanese War, Mao's talks, and the ecumene unraveled |
| Summary |
"Katerina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet Union, Europe, Turkey, Iran, India, and China to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that would overcome national, cultural, and linguistic differences in the name of an anticapitalist and anti-imperialist aesthetic"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Afghanistan |
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Anti-colonialism |
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Anti-fascism |
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Anti-imperialism |
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Colonialism |
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Cosmopolitanism |
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Cultural networks |
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England |
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Exoticism |
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France |
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French Indochina |
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Germany |
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Internationalism |
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Marxism-Leninism |
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Mongolia |
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Postcolonialism |
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Transnational |
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World Communism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 5, 2021) |
| Subject |
Class consciousness in literature.
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Communism and culture -- Eurasia -- History -- 20th century
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Communist aesthetics in literature.
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Revolutionary literature.
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Anti-imperialist movements -- Eurasia -- History -- 20th century
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Literature and transnationalism -- Eurasia -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Anti-imperialist movements
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Class consciousness in literature
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Communism and culture
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Communist aesthetics in literature
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Literature
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Literature and transnationalism
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Revolutionary literature
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Eurasia -- Literatures -- History -- 20th century
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Eurasia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674270213 |
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0674270215 |
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0674270223 |
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9780674270220 |
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