Socialist Cosmopolitanism - The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965

Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. Nicolai Volland demonstrates that Chinese socialist literature was not driven solely by politics but by an ambitious¿but ultimately doomed¿attempt to redraw the literary world map.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Politics of Texts in Motion
2. The Geopoetics of Land Reform in Northeast Asia
3. Fictionalizing the International Working Class
4. Soviet Spaceships in Socialist China
5. Sons and Daughters of the Revolution
6. Mapping the Brave New World of Literature
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Nicolai Volland is assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University.

Summary

Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. Nicolai Volland demonstrates that Chinese socialist literature was not driven solely by politics but by an ambitious—but ultimately doomed—attempt to redraw the literary world map.

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Product details

• Authors: Nicolai Volland, Volland Nicolai
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780231183116
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18311-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education; Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, Literary studies: general, Literary theory