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

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021

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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 Notes Includes index Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 5, 2021) Subject Class consciousness in literature. Communism and culture -- Eurasia -- History -- 20th century Communist aesthetics in literature. Revolutionary literature. Anti-imperialist movements -- Eurasia -- History -- 20th century Literature and transnationalism -- Eurasia -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union. Anti-imperialist movements Class consciousness in literature Communism and culture Communist aesthetics in literature Literature Literature and transnationalism Revolutionary literature SUBJECT Eurasia -- Literatures -- History -- 20th century Subject Eurasia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674270213 0674270215 0674270223 9780674270220

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