Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6298-475-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: North East Asian Studies

Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolia’s early revolutionary period. Between the 1921 socialist revolution and the first Writers’ Congress held in April 1948, the literary community constituted a key resource in the formation and implementation of policy. At the same time, debates within the party, discontent among the population, and questions of religion and tradition led to personal and ideological conflict among the intelligentsia and, in many cases, to trials and executions. Using primary texts, many of them translated into English for the first time, Simon Wickhamsmith shows the role played by the literary arts — poetry, fiction and drama — in the complex development of the ‘new society’, helping to bring Mongolia’s nomadic herding population into the utopia of equality, industrial progress and social well-being promised by the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wickhamsmith, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Transliteration and Mongolian Names

Introduction

Chapter One: Prefiguring 1921

Chapter Two: Staging a Revolution

Chapter Three: Landscape Re-envisioned

Chapter Four: Leftward Together

Chapter Five: Society in Flux

Chapter Six: Negotiating Faith

Chapter Seven: Life and its Value

Chapter Eight: The Great Opportunistic Repression

Chapter Nine: A Closer Union

Appendix: Brief Biographies of Writers

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wickhamsmith, Simon
Simon Wickhamsmith is a scholar and translator of modern Mongolian literature. He teaches in the Writing Program and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University.