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Eurasia without Borders - The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 (Hardcover)
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Eurasia without Borders - The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 (Hardcover)
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A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world
literature, from a major voice in the field. Katerina Clark charts
interwar efforts by Soviet, European, and Asian leftist writers to
create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that would
overcome national, cultural, and linguistic differences in the name
of an anticapitalist, anti-imperialist, and later antifascist
aesthetic. At the heart of this story stands the literary arm of
the Communist International, or Comintern, anchored in Moscow but
reaching Baku, Beijing, London, and parts in between. Its mission
attracted diverse networks of writers who hailed from Turkey, Iran,
India, and China, as well as the Soviet Union and Europe. Between
1919 and 1943, they sought to establish a new world literature to
rival the capitalist republic of Western letters. Eurasia without
Borders revises standard accounts of global twentieth-century
literary movements. The Eurocentric discourse of world literature
focuses on transatlantic interactions, largely omitting the
international left and its Asian members. Meanwhile, postcolonial
studies have overlooked the socialist-aligned world in favor of the
clash between Western European imperialism and subaltern
resistance. Clark provides the missing pieces, illuminating a
distinctive literature that sought to fuse European and vernacular
Asian traditions in the name of a post-imperialist culture.
Socialist literary internationalism was not without serious
problems, and at times it succumbed to an orientalist aesthetic
that rivaled any coming from Europe. Its history is marked by both
promise and tragedy. With clear-eyed honesty, Clark traces the
limits, compromises, and achievements of an ambitious cultural
collaboration whose resonances in later movements can no longer be
ignored.
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