Socialist cultures East and West : a post-Cold War reassessment / edited by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Juraga, Dubravka.

Booker, M. Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and culture.

Communism and literature.

Politics and literature--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Propaganda, Anti-communist.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

Demonstrates that propagandistic Cold War depictions of socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic achievement were inaccurate and misleading.

Contents:

1. The Reds and the Blacks: The Historical Novel in the Soviet Union and Postcolonial Africa / M. Keith Booker, Dubravka Juraga 11

2. From Laughter "Out of Sync" to Post-Synchronized Comedy: How the Stalinist Film Musical Caught Up with Hollywood and Overtook It / Thomas Lahusen 31

3. Miroslav Krleza's Zastave: Socialism, Yugoslavia, and the Historical Novel / Dubravka Juraga 43

4. The Matter of Art: Reinventing Brecht in the Society of the Spectacle / Michael Sprinker 61

5. Mike Gold or James Joyce?: The Literature of Politics and the Politics of Literature / M. Keith Booker 81

6. Revising the Barricades: Scholarship about the U.S. Cultural Left in the Post-Cold War Era / Alan M. Wald 101

7. Material Grounds: Border and Place in Raymond Williams's Fiction / H. Gustav Klaus 123

8. Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction Writers / Carole Ferrier, Stephen Knight 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-181) and index.

ISBN:

0275974901

OCLC:

48620228