Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices II: Performing

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Papers in this stream analyze the construction and (re)negotiation of communist/socialist internationalism through cultural institutions (e.g., periodicals, publishers, film studies, theaters) and practices (e.g., translation, layout design, performance), focusing on the opportunities they created for local agency, forms, and meanings within the transnational pursuit of socialist politics. Contributions address different periods of state socialism (pre-WWII, post-WWII) and places within the Soviet Union, socialist Eastern Europe, or other parts of the world in a comparative manner. Panel II examines how socialist internationalism was performed or enacted through diverse media practices in periodicals across different languages, regions, and historical periods. Analyzing editorial strategies and journal networks, the papers reveal how performative aspects of periodicals created spaces for both reinforcing and challenging official internationalist frameworks.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 20th Century

Chair

• Assel Uvaliyeva, U of Southern California

Papers

• When Metadata Speaks Stories: Analyzing Vsesvit Bibliographical Records - Valeriia Korotkova, Stanford U

• Translations in Transitional Times: Strategies of the Journal 'Rodnik' through the Lens of Political Regime Change and Practices of ‘Glasnostj’ - Maija Burima, Daugavpils U (Latvia)

• Enacting Internationalism from Below: Post-WWII Periodicals for Literature in Translation as Grassroots Internationalism - Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner, Ohio State U

Discussant

• Elena Zemskova, Tel Aviv U (Israel)