Sylabus
1) Ideology and literature in the Maoist era I (the Yan'an Talks) (OL)
- Mao Zedong, ?????????????
- Mao Ce-tung, Rozhovory o literatuře a umění, Praha, Čs. spisovatel, 1950.
- McDougall, Bonnie (trans., ed.), Mao Zedong's "Talks at the Yan'an Conference on Literature and Art", Ann Arbor, Center for Chinese Studies, 1980.
- Čou Jang, O nové čínské literatuře, Praha, Čs. spisovatel, 1950. 2) Ideology and literature in the Maoist era II (from 1950's to 1970's) (OL)
- Falchikov, Michael, Bonnie McDougall a Karin McPherson, In the Party Spirit, Amsterodam, Rodopi, 1996.
- Doležalová, Anna a kol., Čínská kultura a maoismus, Bratislava, Veda, 1982. 3) The Eighties (1): enlightened modernity, national allegories and intellectuals' subjectivity
- Cai Rong, "The Spoken Subject: Han Shaogong's Cripples", in The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Hawai'i University Press, Honolulu, 2004, pp. 60-90.
- Han Shaogong, ??? Bababa (Papapa, 1985)
- Han Shaogong, ??? (in Olga Lomová, "Pět pohledů na čínský venkov"; kanidátská disertační práce, Praha, FF UK, 1990.)
- Čínská povídka 80. let (zvláštní číslo časopisu Nový Orient) (A short anthology of Chinese Stories from 1980's.) 4) The Eighties (2): the emergence of the market, new urban groups and commercial popular culture
- Barmé, Geremie, "Wang Shuo and Liumang (Hooligan) Culture", Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 28 (Jul.), 23-64.
- Wang Shuo, excerpts from ?? Wanzhu (The Troubleshooters, 1987)
- Kalvachová, Lucie, "Wang Shuo: společensko literární fenomén", diplomová práce, vedoucí práce Martin Hála, Praha, FF UK, 1999. 5) Towards the Nineties: everyday life, common people's consciousness and "Chinese" "post-ism"
- Li Shulei, Meng Fanhua, Xie Mian, Zhang Yiwu, Zhang Zhizhong, "????????--??" (Literature towards the Nineties: a conversation), Dangdai Zuojia Pinglun, 1991, 5, pp. 26-33.
- Liu Heng, excerpts from ????????? Pinzui Zhang Damin xingfu shenghuo (The happy life of garrulous Zhang Damin, 1998) 6) A changing mode of production: the crisis of "pure literature" and the rise of a "new state of affairs"
- Han Dong, "??: ???????????" Beiwang: youguan duanlie xingwei de wenti huida (Memorandum: Answers for the Act of Breaking Away", Beijing Wenxue, 10, 1998, pp. 41-47.
- Zhu Wen, excerpts from ???? Wo ai meiyuan (I love dollars, 1997) 7) New ideology (1): CCP's soft propaganda and "main melody literature"
- Kinkley, Jeffrey, "Climax: The Alarum and Standard-Bearer - Zhang Ping's Choice", in Corruption and Realism in late Socialist China, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2007, pp. 78-103.
- Zhang Ping, excerpts from ?? Jueze (Choice, 1997) 8) New ideology (2): bestsellers, consumer ideology, and the myth of "successful gentleman"
- McGrath, Jason, "Adaptations and Ruptures: Literature in the New Culture Industry" in Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature and Criticism in the Market Age, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2008, 59-94.
- Chi Li, excerpts from ???? Lailai wangwang (Coming and going, 1997) 9) Emerging social groups: female literature from feminism to "babe writers"
- Kong Shuyu, "The Economy of Privacy: Publishing Women's Writing", in Consuming Literature, Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2005, 95-119.
- Wei Hui, excerpts from ???? Shanghai Baobei (Shanghai Baby, 1999)
- Wei Hui, Shanghai Baby, Praha: Motto, 2003. 10) (Re)emerging social groups: intellectual writers reinventing literary autonomy
- Wang Xiaobo, "??????" Chenmo de daduoshu (The silent majority), in ???????Wang Xiaobo jingdian zuopin (Classic works by Wang Xiaobo), Dangdai Shijie Chubanshe, Beijing, 2005 (1997), pp. 1-10.
- Wang Xiaobo, excerpts from ???? Donggong Xigong (East palace, west palace, 1996) 11) A new mode of production: internet, a new public sphere or middle class self-expression?
- Reading: Liu, Kang, "The Internet in China: Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions", in Globalization and Cultural Trends in China, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2004, 127-161. ?
- Annie Baobei, ???? Gaobie Wei'an (Goodbye Vivian, 2002) 12) Emerging social groups: Post-Eighty writing from teenage failure to linglei success
- Fumian, Marco, "The Temple and the Market: Controversial Positions in the Literary Field with Chinese Characteristics", Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 21, 2, Fall 2009, pp. 126-166
- Han Han, excerpts from ??? Sanchongmen (The three doors, 2000) 13) Conclusion and Discussion.
Anotace
Kurz bude probíhat z větší části v angličtině, pouze první dvě přednášky budou v českém jazyce. K získání atestace je nutná pravidelná a aktivní účast na hodinách. Kurz je ukončen ústní zkouškou.
Description: This course is an overview of Chinese literary production and consumption in the Reform Era, especially focusing on the second reform period started in 1992. The purpose of the course is to outline the changes which have taken place during this period in literary content and form, within the transformations occurred in the political, economic, social and cultural sphere. Special attention will be given to the observation of the changes in the literary mode of production and in the structure of the literary field, and to the interpretation of the most representative literary discourses and narratives. In particular, two trajectories will be followed; that of elite literature, promoted by the literary establishment, and that of popular literature, promoted by the market. A number phenomena of literary fiction will be analyzed, paying attention to the relation of the specific textual representations to the dominant ideology on the one hand and the experience of the audiences on the other.
For better understanding of the nature of this change, the course will be introduced by two lectures providing information about the ideological basis for literature in the PRC, including the ways of its implementation, and about the ways literature was (mostly unsuccessfully) struggling for certain amount of independence.
Each class will consist of a presentation followed by a discussion centered on two selected readings (a critical reading to be read in English or Chinese, a literary text to be read in Chinese).
A detailed bibliography will be provided before beginning of the course, texts not available in the library will be provided in class.