ASEEES 2014 Round Table on Comintern Modernism

[Amelia Glaser]

Greetings, SEELANGers,

We still have a couple of slots open on a roundtable devoted to Comintern Modernism(s) for next year's ASEEES conference in San Antonio. Please write to Amelia Glaser at amglaser at ucsd.edu off-list if you are interested in taking part. Below is a brief description. 

Sincerely,
Amelia Glaser


Comintern Modernism(s)
 
This panel focuses on the convergence of revolutionary politics and modernist literature—in particular the emergence of the Soviet Union during the interwar years as a center of world letters.  As Katerina Clark and others have recently shown, the Communist International (Comintern), Russian avant-garde, and socialist realism resonated around the globe. The Soviet Union attracted such canonical literary figures as Walter Benjamin, Langston Hughes, Andre Malraux, and Lu Xun.  This roundtable will include presentations on the resonance of the Comintern within multiple national literary traditions, and will explore further the Soviet Union as a new, non-Western, anti-capitalist center of global modernism. We aim to foster a discussion that will assess the usefulness of viewing literary history, party politics, and ethnic particularism as mutually influential forces in the years leading up to World War Two.

Deadline: January 15.
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