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
Summary
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 ;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
