African American Writers and the USSR. Literature and Politics

<jats:p>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seven chapters that offer comprehensive studies of these topics and deploys significant archival research, and provides unpublished material in the addendum.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.</jats:p>