 | The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Writers, Artists, and the Magic Pilgrimage to the Soviet Union Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- Russian influences; Intercu; The Ethnic Avant-Garde remaps global modernism and interwar literary, political, and art history along minority and Soviet-centered lines. Steven S. Lee details an absorbing collage of writers and artists who cohered around experimental techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption, advancing the avant-garde project of seeing the world anew. Steven S. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. |
