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Olga Yu. Panova
Olga Yu. Panova, Doctor Hab. in Philology, Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1/51, GSP-1, 119991 Moscow, Russia; Leading Research Fellow, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2520-120X
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Abstract:
African American Writers and the USSR: Literature and Politics examines Soviet-African American literary connections: translations, editions, critical reception of Black American literature in the Soviet Union, visits and travelogues, contacts of African American authors (William E.B. Du Bois, Claude MacKay, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, Eugene Gordon, Wayland Rudd, etc.) with Soviet literary institutions, writers, translators, editors, politicians. The book consists of seven chapters that offer comprehensive studies of these topics and deploys significant archival research, and provides unpublished material in the addendum. The book’s target audience includes specialists in literature, history, arts; the book is also intended for the general public.
Keywords: literary history, African American literature, Soviet-American literary connections, literature and politics, travelogue.