“Party Literature”. Socialist Realism between Art and Politics

Authors

  • María Fernanda Alle Instituto de Estudios Críticos en Humanidades (IECH) Universidad Nacional de Rosario CONICET

Keywords:

Socialist realism | Party literature | Stalinism | Arts and politics | Cultural legacy

Abstract

This article undertakes a chronological reading of some of the theoretical-political texts that laid the foundations for the artistic doctrine of socialist realism as an axiological apparatus imposed from the Soviet state. It argues that the Stalinist doctrine of art takes to its extreme Lenin’s dispositions about “party literature” and the recovery of bourgeois cultural heritage. In this sense, the article poses that the axiological apparatus mobilized by this doctrine brings together and eventually confounds political and artistic values.

Author Biography

María Fernanda Alle, Instituto de Estudios Críticos en Humanidades (IECH) Universidad Nacional de Rosario CONICET

Doctora en Humanidades y Artes, mención Literatura por la UNR.

Becaria Post-doctoral del CONICET. Investigación radicada en el CEDINTEL, UNL.

Docente de la cátedra de Análisis y Crítica I de la carrera de Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

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Published

2019-01-31

How to Cite

Alle, M. F. (2019). “Party Literature”. Socialist Realism between Art and Politics. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (20), 166–186. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/21631

Issue

No. 20 (2019): Limits, Tensions, and Challenges of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature in the 21st Century

Section

Miscellaneous

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