The Socialist Side of World Literature

Introduction: Socialist Realism, Cold War, and World Literature
Part One: Soviet Socialist Realism and World Literature
Chapter 1: Equal Aesthetic Rights, Semi-Centers/Peripheries, and the Birth of Socialist Realism
Chapter 2: Water Curtain and World Literature: Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Sots-Art
Part Two: Center and Periphery: Socialist Realism beyond the Soviet Union
Chapter 3: Joseph Remenyi, Small Nation Literature and Socialist World Literature
Chapter 4: Australian Experience: From Bush Realism to Socialist Realism
Chapter 5: Caribbean Experience: Left of Karl Marx and Right of Coca-Cola Kangaroo
Part Three: The Third World and New Socialist Realism in the Cold War Era
Chapter 6: China's Odyssey to Anti-Colonialism and Socialist World Literature: Zhou Yang and Chinese Socialist Realism
Chapter 7: Clouds Pregnant with Moisture: Alex La Guma's Socialist Realism
Chapter 8: From the Cloud Curtain to a Sugar Castle: Ousmane Sembéne's Socialist Realism
Chapter 9: Moondiamonds: Blood and Sweat with Pablo Neruda's Applied Poetics
Part Four: The (Semi)Fourth World and Social(list) Realism within and beyond the Cold War
Chapter 10: Global North and the Semi-Fourth World: W.E.B Du Bois and Richard Wright's Encounter with Social(ist) Realism
Chapter 11: Global South and the Fourth World: Margaret Tucker, Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Melissa Lucashenko's Engagement with Socialism and Realism
Conclusion: The Socialist Realism Frame and Socialist World Literature in the Post-Soviet Age