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Eurasia without borders : the dream of a leftist literary commons, 1919-1943 / Katerina Clark.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780674261105
Physical Description: viii, 448 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Copyright: 2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-435) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.