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Revolution and Its Narrative–new book
We would like to announce the publication of our translation of Cai Xiang's 2010 book, Revolution and its Narratives (革命/叙述).
Rebecca Karl and Xueping Zhong
Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, by Xiang Cai. Edited by Rebecca  E. Karl and Xueping Zhong. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.
Description
Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture, history, and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts, Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated, annotated, and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time.
About The Author(s)
Cai Xiang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Literature at Shanghai University.
Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University and the author of Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History, also published by Duke University Press.
Xueping Zhong is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University and the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century, also published by Duke University Press.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on March 18, 2016
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