Politics and literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) / Simon Wickhamsmith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickham-Smith, Simon, author.

Series:

North East Asian studies.

North East Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature--Mongolia--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Mongolian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Mongolian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This study 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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Transliteration and Mongolian Names

Introduction

1. Prefiguring 1921

2. Staging a Revolution

3. Landscape Re-Envisioned

4. Leftward Together

5. Society in Flux

6. Negotiating Faith

7. Life and its Value

8. The Great Opportunistic Repression

9. A Closer Union

Appendix: Brief Biographies of Writers

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70163-9

90-485-3554-9

9781003701637

OCLC:

1184460867