Table of Contents

Introduction by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker The Reds and The Blacks: The Historical Novel in the Soviet Union and Postcolonial Africa by M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga From Laughter "Out of Sync" to Post-Synchronized Comedy: How the Stalinist Film Musical Caught Up with Hollywood and Overtook It by Thomas Lahusen Miroslav Krleza's Zastave: Socialism, Yugoslavia, and the Historical Novel by Dubravka Juraga The Matter of Art: Reinventing Brecht in the Society of the Spectacle by Michael Sprinker Mike Gold or Jame Joyce?: The Literature of Politics and the Politics of Literature by M. Keith Booker Revising the Barricades: Scholarship about the U.S. Cultural Left in the Post-Cold War Era by Alan Wald Material Grounds: Border and Place in Raymond Williams's Fiction by H. Gustav Klaus Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction Writers by Carole Ferrier and Stephen Knight

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

About the Author

DUBRAVKA JURAGA is an independent scholar who has published essays on postcolonial, Russian, and East European literature. M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas.