Dear colleagues,
I'd like to draw your attention to a new publication with Critical Cultural and Communications Press on the topic of literary production in state socialist regimes.
Using a comparative approach that crosses disciplines and continents, *Writing under Socialism* offers a critical re-evaluation of the position of literary production under socialist states past and present using new material, theories and methodologies that have come to light since 1989. The volume brings together academic experts researching the interactions between writing and politics in diverse contexts across the former Eastern Bloc, Latin America, and China. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, writing under socialism involves more than the traditional dichotomy of intellect versus power and instead includes complex relationships between the different actors, institutions and policies that together form the context of literary production in a given state. By offering fresh perspectives on writing in a range of socialist countries, Writing under Socialism highlights the commonalities and differences in these complex
relationships. Writing under Socialism will be of direct interest to scholars working on literary, historical and political analyses of cultural production under socialisms past and present
I have pasted a table of contents below. More information can be found at: http://www.new-ventures.net/HTM/Writing%20Under%20Socialism.htm
Best wishes,
Sara
Contents
Acknowledgments v
Foreword vii-ix
Roger Woods
Introduction: Writing Under Socialism Past and Present: a Comparative
Approach 1-7
Sara Jones and Meesha Nehru
Past and Present: Socialism and Postsocialism
Writing in Ambiguity: Negotiating Censorship in the GDR 11-27
Sara Jones
Print Culture and the New Media in Postsocialist China 29-41
Michel Hockx
Ideology
“Entertaining History”: Socialist Realism in Search of the “Historical
Past” 45-69
Evgeny Dobrenko
Living Antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff’s Writings in Die Weltbühne 71-94
Joanne Sayner
Ernesto Cardenal and the Dream of Revolution 95-110
Mike González
Negotiating Space
Backstage Negotiations: Dramatists and Theatre Reform in the Late GDR 113-130
Laura Bradley
Ismail Kadare’s Inner Emigration 131-142
Peter Morgan
Literature as Shared Experience: The Movement of Literary Workshops in
Revolutionary Cuba 143-161
Meesha Nehru
Literary Institutions
Double Agents: The Editorial Habitus and the Thick Socialist Literary
Journal 165-182
Matthew Philpotts
The Opposition Movement and Writers – A Difficult Coexistence. The
Polish Writers Union in the 1970s and 1980s 183-207
Karolina Ziolo
The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism in China: The Hu Feng
Incident Revisited 209-234
Ruth Hung
Narratives In and Out of Socialism
Under and Out of Socialism: Ang Lee’s Rehabilitation of Eileen Chang’s
Lust, Caution 237-257
Cristina Demaria
The Writing out of Socialism: Dystopian Technologies, Nineteen
Eighty-Four and A Clockwork Orange 259-269
Macdonald Daly
Writing Under Socialism
El poeta/The Poet 272-289
Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Epilogue: Meeting Myself at Nottingham 291-305
Judith Wermuth-Atkinson
Notes on Contributors 307
Index 311
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