Nicolai Volland is assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University.
Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literature from the Mao era, proposing to read Chinese socialist literature as world literature. China after 1949 engaged with the world beyond its borders in myriad ways and on many levels—political and economic, cultural as well as literary. Far from rejecting the worldliness of earlier eras, Nicolai Volland demonstrates, the young People's Republic developed its own cosmopolitanism. Rather than a radical break with the past, Chinese socialist literature should be seen as an integral and important chapter of China's long search to find a place within world literature. Socialist Cosmopolitanism revisits a range of genres, from poetry and land reform novels to science fiction and children's literature, and shows how Chinese writers and readers alike saw their own literary production as part of a much larger literary universe. This literary space, reaching from Beijing to Berlin, from Prague to Pyongyang, from Warsaw to Moscow to Hanoi, allowed authors and texts to travel, in the course reinventing the meaning of world literature. Chinese socialist literature is driven by a hugely ambitious—and ultimately doomed—attempt to redraw the literary world map.
發表於2025-03-06
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圖書標籤: 比較文學 海外中國研究 PRC 文化研究 曆史 中蘇 中國文學 新書記
這本書的argument超級簡單: 從發掘1950s文學worldliness的角度重寫一個更有連續性的文學史。但各章節的編排令人疑惑,主要是討論四種不同的genre(農業,工業,科幻,兒童),但卻對genre的選擇沒有過多解釋,也看不齣來它們之間的關係,進而有一種從不同材料翻來覆去重申一個論點的枯燥感。第二章討論industrial fiction和最後討論《世界文學》的時候,展開講瞭講socialist bloc內在的等級和第三世界。總體感覺是論點可能對於current scholarship比較新穎,但並不是很Inspiring
評分這書一上市我就買來看,五十多刀呀,沒想到這麼快就齣pdf瞭
評分這書一上市我就買來看,五十多刀呀,沒想到這麼快就齣pdf瞭
評分剛剛混入一個“老毛曆史”的研討會,見到瞭作者本人。作者想要用Cosmopolitanism這種西方 Framework去切入到毛時期的文學,也同時去區分社會主義常常提到的“Internationalism"。幾種文學類型在本書中的介紹相得益彰。然而作者對於Cosmopolitanism這一概念並沒有進行過多“對話性”的梳理。總覺得在讀過阿皮亞的Ethics under Cosmopolitanism或者德裏達式解構主義下的Hospitality, 作者所給與的Worldliness是不是有點太簡單瞭。。。不過第一章所提到的Utilitarianism of Cultural Production對我論文幫助很大。
評分很酷的一本書,一天讀完。核心論點:共和國頭十年的社會主義文學可以視為社會主義世界主義,並非與民國文學斷裂,隻是重新定義瞭世界主義,重新劃定瞭文學的本初子午綫。
Socialist Cosmopolitanism 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載