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Avant-Garde Post– - Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union
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The remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets
whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident artistic
movement opposed to both Putin’s regime and Western liberalism.
What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In
recent years, Russian-language avant-garde poetry has been seeking
the answers to this question. Marijeta Bozovic follows a
constellation of poets at the center of a contemporary literary
movement that is bringing radical art out of the Soviet shadow:
Kirill Medvedev, Pavel Arseniev, Aleksandr Skidan, Dmitry Golynko,
Roman Osminkin, Keti Chukhrov, and Galina Rymbu. While their formal
experiments range widely, all share a commitment to explicitly
political poetry. Each one, in turn, has become a hub in a growing
new-left network across the former Second World. Joined together by
their work with the Saint Petersburg–based journal [Translit],
this circle has staunchly resisted the Putin regime and its
mobilization of Soviet nostalgia. At the same time, the poets of
Avant-Garde Post– reject Western discourse about the false
promises of leftist utopianism and the superiority of the liberal
world. In opposing both narratives, they draw on the legacies of
historical Russian and Soviet avant-gardes as well as on an
international canon of Marxist art and theory. They are also
intimately connected with other artists, intellectuals, and
activists around the world, collectively restoring leftist
political poetry to global prominence. The avant-garde, Bozovic
shows, is not a relic of the Soviet past. It is a recurrent pulse
in Russophone—as well as global—literature and art. Charged by
that pulse, today’s new left is reimagining class-based critique.
Theirs is an ongoing, defiant effort to imagine a socialist future
that is at once global and egalitarian.
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Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Marijeta Bozovic
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-29062-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-674-29062-3 |
Barcode: |
9780674290624 |
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