Svět Literatury (Jul 2020)
Esejistika na rozcestí: Spor o pojetí eseje xiaopinwen v Číně třicátých let 20. století
Abstract
The paper presents an examination of the Xiaopinwen and manhua, a collection of critical views on personal essay, or xiaopinwen. The collection was orchestrated and published in 1935 by the editors of the leftist journal Taibai with an aim to limit the influence of personal, politically uncommitted essay. The present analysis shows that the collection as a whole — despite a highly critical tenor of a number of individual contributions — cannot be seen as an outright denunciation of xiaopinwen. On the contrary, the nature of the critical debate indicates that in the mid-1930s, in the politically and ideologically tense times, the personal essay still retained a privileged position in the world of Chinese literature.
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