Rossen Djagalov’s From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and Third Worlds is a groundbreaking study of intellectual, sociocultural, political, and artistic networks that have emerged as the result of the Soviet engagement with the literary and cinematic fields in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Using previously unpublished archival materials, personal interviews, photographs, and a variety of critical sources, this monograph investigates how the second and the third world were mutually constitutive. Djagalov’s approach is characterized by depth of analysis of cultural institutions and networks, supported by insightful comparative readings of novels and films. The book makes a compelling argument for the study of this heritage and challenges existing theoretical models of postcolonialism and world literature.
The introduction lays out the complex historical and theoretical background of the project and sets out to reconfigure the relationship between Soviet and postcolonial studies. In defining his theoretical approach, Djagalov...
