The First Encounter: “Negro American Literature” in the Soviet Literary Criticism of the 1920s

Soviet leaders and Comintern stressed the importance of the “Negro problem” in the struggle against American imperialism; African American literature was considered a part of the “battlefield” as well, so an ideologically bound image of “American Negro literature” was on the agenda. First translatio...

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Main Author: Olga Yu. Panova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2019-12-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/2019-4-4/Panova.pdf