LEADER 04809nam 2200721 450 001 9910823723503321 005 20220118190822.0 010 $a0-231-54011-6 024 7 $a10.7312/lee-17352 035 $a(CKB)3710000000497071 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001285108 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4581057 035 $a(DE-B1597)458412 035 $a(OCoLC)922697921 035 $a(OCoLC)979628954 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231540117 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4581057 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11242199 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL838454 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000497071 100 $a20160824h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe ethnic avant-garde $eminority cultures and world revolution /$fSteven S. Lee 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 225 1 $aModernist Latitudes 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2015. 311 $a0-231-17352-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tA Note on Transliteration --$tIntroduction --$t1 Translating the Ethnic Avant-Garde --$t2 The Avant-Garde's Asia --$t3 From Avant-Garde to Authentic --$t4 Cold War Pluralism --$tAfterword --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tCredits and Permissions --$tIndex 330 $aDuring the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued "ethnic avant-garde." These writers and artists cohered around distinct forms that mirrored Soviet techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption. They orbited interwar Moscow, where the international avant-garde converged with the Communist International. The book explores Vladimir Mayakovsky's 1925 visit to New York City via Cuba and Mexico, during which he wrote Russian-language poetry in an "Afro-Cuban" voice; Langston Hughes's translations of these poems while in Moscow, which he visited to assist on a Soviet film about African American life; a futurist play condemning Western imperialism in China, which became Broadway's first major production to feature a predominantly Asian American cast; and efforts to imagine the Bolshevik Revolution as Jewish messianic arrest, followed by the slow political disenchantment of the New York Intellectuals. Through an absorbing collage of cross-ethnic encounters that also include Herbert Biberman, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Robeson, and Vladimir Tatlin, this work remaps global modernism along minority and Soviet-centered lines, further advancing the avant-garde project of seeing the world anew. 410 0$aModernist latitudes. 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican literature$xRussian influences 606 $aIntercultural communication$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIntercultural communication$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSoviet Union$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aSoviet Union$xIntellectual life$y1917-1970 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$xHistory 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xRussian influences. 615 0$aIntercultural communication$xHistory 615 0$aIntercultural communication$xHistory 676 $a810.9/920693 700 $aLee$b Steven S$g(Steven Sunwoo),$f1978-$01660204 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823723503321 996 $aThe ethnic avant-garde$94015259 997 $aUNINA