Popular Representation and Subject Construction of "revolutionary China": an Investigation of "lin Hai Xue Yuan" and Its Derivative Texts

About This Novel

There are two paths to the practice of creating proletarian literature (culture) in revolutionary China. One insists on cultivating writers from workers and peasants; the other insists on transforming intellectuals with proletarian consciousness so that they can create qualified works. By studying the production of "Lin Hai Xue Yuan" and its derivative texts, this book presents the various difficulties and heights that can be achieved in the process of exploring these two paths. This book believes that revolutionary China consciously regarded literature (culture) as an organic component of the ideological state apparatus. Therefore, the creation of literature (culture) must attach importance to the popular pursuit of all people; and in the actual production process, due to the intervention of senior literati, this popular pursuit has a certain elegance. Elegance suppresses the original roughness of the peasant and army writers and reflects their actual low status in the cultural hierarchy. But on the other hand, the imprint of peasants and soldiers stubbornly fixed in the work, because of its ambiguity and vividness, makes the adaptation also have the possibility of repeated interpretation, that is, it has a classic character.

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