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The Socialist Side of World Literature explores Socialist Realism in English-language publications since 1935. While many studies have focused mainly on the Soviet Union and Europe, often overlooking significant figures from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and marginalized groups in the First and Second Worlds, this book looks at the many crucial questions that have remained unanswered, including why the emergence of Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe constituted a pivotal cultural event for Russia. What are the similarities and differences in the influence of Social(ist) Realism on the Third World, as well as on (Semi) Fourth World minorities and marginal groups in the First and Second Worlds, in both the Global North and South? In the Cold War era, how did the prominence of Soviet and Socialist Bloc ideologies reshape the global literary landscape and the development of Socialist World Literature? Yanli He examines the rise of Socialism and Socialist Realism as a gesture of claiming a new cultural identity for Russia, considering their global impact during the Cold War and their effects on underdeveloped nations, minorities, and marginal groups in the context of racism and colonialism. At its core, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the diversity of Socialist Literature worldwide through the lens of Minor and Small Literature, exploring the multifaceted dimensions and complexities of World Literature and Socialist World Literature.
Contents
Introduction: Socialist Realism, Cold War, and World Literature
Part One: Soviet Socialist Realism and World Literature
Chapter 1: Equal Aesthetic Rights, Semi-Centers/Peripheries, and the Birth of Socialist Realism
Chapter 2: Water Curtain and World Literature: Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Sots-Art
Part Two: Center and Periphery: Socialist Realism beyond the Soviet Union
Chapter 3: Joseph Remenyi, Small Nation Literature and Socialist World Literature
Chapter 4: Australian Experience: From Bush Realism to Socialist Realism
Chapter 5: Caribbean Experience: Left of Karl Marx and Right of Coca-Cola Kangaroo
Part Three: The Third World and New Socialist Realism in the Cold War Era
Chapter 6: China's Odyssey to Anti-Colonialism and Socialist World Literature: Zhou Yang and Chinese Socialist Realism
Chapter 7: Clouds Pregnant with Moisture: Alex La Guma's Socialist Realism
Chapter 8: From the Cloud Curtain to a Sugar Castle: Ousmane Sembéne's Socialist Realism
Chapter 9: Moondiamonds: Blood and Sweat with Pablo Neruda's Applied Poetics
Part Four: The (Semi)Fourth World and Social(list) Realism within and beyond the Cold War
Chapter 10: Global North and the Semi-Fourth World: W.E.B Du Bois and Richard Wright's Encounter with Social(ist) Realism
Chapter 11: Global South and the Fourth World: Margaret Tucker, Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Melissa Lucashenko's Engagement with Socialism and Realism
Conclusion: The Socialist Realism Frame and Socialist World Literature in the Post-Soviet Age
