The Ethnic Avant-Garde | New From Modernist Latitudes

"A dazzlingly original, ambitious book that challenges us to reconsider the relationship between politics and artistic experimentation."  -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin MODERNIST LATITUDES MORE TITLES IN LITERARY STUDIES NEW RELEASES The Ethnic Avant-Garde Minority Cultures and World Revolution Steven S. Lee 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 history, drawing extensively on travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued "ethnic avant-garde." These writers and artists cohered around distinct forms that mirrored Soviet techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption. They orbited interwar Moscow, where the international avant-garde converged with the Communist International. Read more...   -  Read an excerpt from the introduction to The Ethnic Avant-Garde   $60.00 $42.00 | Cloth | 304 pages | £41.50*   USE COUPON CODE "CUP30" AND SAVE 30%   *Customers in UK, Europe, and Middle East please contact customer@wiley.com STAY CONNECTED

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