Xiang Cai

Revolution and Its Narratives

China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966

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Produktbeschreibung

Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture, history, and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts, Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated, annotated, and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360698
• ISBN-10: 0822360691
• Artikelnr.: 42574823

Autorenporträt

Cai Xiang

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Translation  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction to the English Translation / Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping
Zhong  xi
Introduction. Literature and Revolutionary China  1
1. The National/The Local: Conflict, Negotiation, and Capitulation in the
Revolutionary Imagination  27
2. The Mobilization Structure: The Masses, Cadres, and Intellectuals  85
3. Youth, Love, "Natural Rights," and Sex  145
4. Renarrating the History of the Revolution: From Hero to Legend  189
5. Narratives of Labor or Labor Utopias  251
6. Technological Revolution and Narratives of Working-Class Subjectivity 
307
7. Cultural Politics, or Political Cultural Conflicts, in the 1960s  357
8. Conclusion. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It  403
Bibliography  433
Index  447