Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices III: Envisioning

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 III: Visions addresses how the practices of internationalism prompted the pursuit of a unique visual language that tied in with visions of socialist culture at large. Panelists address this through the lens of periodicals, theater and film, each of which showcase a unique local adaptation of this internationalist vision.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 20th Century

Chair

• Steven Lee, UC Berkeley

Papers

• Performing Friendship: The White-Haired Girl and Sino-Soviet Theatrical Exchanges in the 1950s - Edward Tyerman, UC Berkeley

• Between Influence and Transformation: Soviet Socialist Internationalism in North Korean Children's Literature - Sooyeon Lee, U of Toronto (Canada)

Discussant

• Steven Lee, UC Berkeley