"Simon Wickhamsmith’s <cite>Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948)</cite> makes an important contribution to our understanding of Mongolian literature in the first three decades of the Mongolian People’s Republic." <br />- Phillip Marzluf, <cite>Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies</cite>, Vol. 82, No. 1

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.
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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
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"Simon Wickhamsmith’s Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948) makes an important contribution to our understanding of Mongolian literature in the first three decades of the Mongolian People’s Republic." - Phillip Marzluf, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 82, No. 1
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ISBN
9789462984752
Publisert
2020-09-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Amsterdam University Press
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
356

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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. Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist based at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is program director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies. He is the author of Sinophobia (Hawaii, 2015), coauthor of On the Edge (Harvard, 2021), editor of Voluminous States (Duke, 2020), and coeditor of Yellow Perils (Hawaii, 2019) and Frontier Encounters (Open Book, 2012). He is currently finalizing his latest book, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke University Press). More information about his current research is available on his website: www.franckbille.com. Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge, which she co-founded, and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.