Affective Chinese Socialist Realism: A Reading of Zhao Shuli's Sanliwan Village.
Socialist realism grew out of the political agenda of educating the masses on the inevitability of class struggle and out of the need of mobilizing them to contribute to the building of a socialist society. The targets of education were not solely the illiterate peasants but also the intellectuals w...
| Publicado en: | Chinese Literature & Thought Today Vol. 55; no. 1/2; pp. 67 - 80 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2024
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=177458066&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 177458066 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 27683524 N4K5 jtl: Chinese Literature & Thought Today issn: 27683524 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2024 vid: 55 iid: 1/2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 177458066 10.1080/27683524.2024.2321112 ppf: 67 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 556KB tig: atl: Affective Chinese Socialist Realism: A Reading of Zhao Shuli's Sanliwan Village. aug: au: Licandro, Daniela su: Peasants Socialism Socialist societies Realism Political agenda Affect (Psychology) Realist fiction sug: subj: Peasants Socialism Socialist societies Realism Political agenda Affect (Psychology) Realist fiction ab: Socialist realism grew out of the political agenda of educating the masses on the inevitability of class struggle and out of the need of mobilizing them to contribute to the building of a socialist society. The targets of education were not solely the illiterate peasants but also the intellectuals who needed to overcome their petit-bourgeois outlook. Scholarship has elucidated the limits and potentialities of socialist realism as an aesthetic practice at the service of a political project, but the question of how socialist realism sought to educate both peasants and intellectuals begs for reflection. Focusing on Zhao Shuli's (1906–70) 1955 socialist-realist novel Sanliwan Village, this article asks how the text responded to the task of transforming both the masses and the intellectuals. It argues that Zhao's text performs the process underlying the subject's transformation into a new socialist being. The analysis of nicknames, "cinematic storytelling," speed and rhythm, and of tools as "touching things" sheds light on the textual strategies that produce an affective narrative. As such, Zhao's novel points to socialist-subject formation not simply as an effect of discursive practices, but as the outcome of a renewed sensorial engagement with the material world. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Chinese Literature & Thought Today is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Chinese Literature & Thought Today holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|