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Writing Against Peripheralization: Glorifying Labor in Chinese Socialist Literature
Abstract:This essay examines the political and aesthetic aspects of labor in Chinese socialist literature and argues that beyond its purpose of economic development, the glorification of labor also aimed to build an egalitarian society that would put an end to the alienation of labor. However, the disastrous consequences of the Great Leap Forward have shown that the advocation of selfless labor needs boundaries. Labor has been depoliticized and commodified since the post-Mao reforms. Migrant workers' literature acts as a form of cultural resistance to the alienation of labor in postsocialist China under global capitalism.
期刊介绍:
Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.