[PDF][PDF] The Literary Ideas of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il: An Introduction to North Korean Meta-Authorial Perspectives
A David-West - Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & …, 2009 - ojs.library.ubc.ca
A David-West
Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, 2009•ojs.library.ubc.caThis essay makes a comparative examination of the North Korean Juche-Stalinist literary
ideas in Kim Il Sung's Duties of Literature and Arts in Our Revolution and Kim Jong Il's On
the Art of the Cinema. Outlined are the backgrounds of the Kims, their definitions of literature,
their conceptions of the writer, and their character typologies of heroes and villains. The
essay concludes with a critical summary, discusses the problems of the meta-author and
intentional fallacy, and proposes reading strategies for interpreting North Korean literature.
ideas in Kim Il Sung's Duties of Literature and Arts in Our Revolution and Kim Jong Il's On
the Art of the Cinema. Outlined are the backgrounds of the Kims, their definitions of literature,
their conceptions of the writer, and their character typologies of heroes and villains. The
essay concludes with a critical summary, discusses the problems of the meta-author and
intentional fallacy, and proposes reading strategies for interpreting North Korean literature.
Abstract
This essay makes a comparative examination of the North Korean Juche-Stalinist literary ideas in Kim Il Sung’s Duties of Literature and Arts in Our Revolution and Kim Jong Il’s On the Art of the Cinema. Outlined are the backgrounds of the Kims, their definitions of literature, their conceptions of the writer, and their character typologies of heroes and villains. The essay concludes with a critical summary, discusses the problems of the meta-author and intentional fallacy, and proposes reading strategies for interpreting North Korean literature.
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