Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism recounts the story of two Cold War-era cultural formations that claimed to represent the Third World project in literature and cinema, and offers a compelling genealogy of contemporary postcolonial studies.

A reconstruction of Cold War-era cultural networks between the Second and Third Worlds that offers a compelling genealogy of contemporary postcolonial studies.

About the Author
Rossen Djagalov is assistant professor of Russian at New York University, a research fellow at the Poletayev Institute of the Higher School of Economics, and a member of the editorial collective of LeftEast.

Reviews

"From Internationalism to Postcolonialism provides a highly valuable reference for readers and scholars interested in the breadth and depth of cultural outreach conducted by the former Soviet Union." Los Angeles Review of Books

"Djagalov's contribution is immense: at once a work of diplomatic history that situates postcolonial literature within the unexpected framework of socialist internationalism, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism is also a rehabilitation of Third World writers whose work largely had been forgotten as unexceptional "national allegory." Djagalov's command of postcolonial studies and Cold War diplomatic history is impressive, and I hope the book finds its audience within both of these divergent fields." H-Net

"Blending provocative rhetoric with careful archival analysis, Rossen Djagalov's passionately argued new monograph, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism, makes a compelling case for the need to narrate a new origin story for postcolonial studies ... From Internationalism to Postcolonialism's admirably detailed analysis provides its interdisciplinary audience with a series of counter-intuitive, but convincing, revelations." University of Toronto Quarterly

Book Information
ISBN 9780228001102
Author Rossen Djagalov
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
Weight(grams) 454g