... in the transition from the Soviet era to the Korean version of “national Stalinism,” including the implantation of the Soviet-originating model of “socialist realism” into the Korean cultural soil, and how these and other developments influenced the lives and activities of three prominent literary figures: Cho Ki...

... the political and literary context of his time. It analyzes Cho's impact on North Korean literature and literary politics of the late 1940s and early 1950s by turning to some of his works, including Paektusan (Paektu Mountain), and other poems glorifying socialist realism...

... of Korean proletarian literature.” His pre-1945 works were continually republished and celebrated as the earliest example of socialist realism in Korean literature. This chapter first provides a background on Yi's early life before turning to his literary career. It then considers Yi's writings...

... distribution digital technologies Reynaud Bérénice transnationalism crowd qunzhong socialist realism individualism independence In their introduction to a collaborative study of crowds organized by the Stanford Humanities Lab in 2000, Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews observe that while the first...

...This introductory chapter provides a background of Chinese avant-garde. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, Chinese avant-garde fought hard against the dominant power of Mao Zedong’s socialist ideology and, in particular, Socialist Realism. As a style and aesthetic method, Socialist Realism...

...This chapter examines the Soviet intellectual influence on North Korean literature in the nascent years of North Korean Communism. It begins with a discussion of Soviet literature in Korea in the late 1940s and early 1950s and goes on to consider the major conventions of Soviet socialist realism...

... and practice of Soviet “socialist realism” as a political and artistic strategy. Through various channels of influence, including large-scale translations of Soviet literature and the activity of Soviet Koreans as living carriers of Soviet values, the North Korean literary and political world was able...