The North Korean Positive Hero in" The People of the Fighting Village
A David-West - North Korean Review, 2007 - JSTOR
A David-West
North Korean Review, 2007•JSTORThis essay investigates the problem of the North Korean positive hero in Chon Se Bong's
The People of the Fighting Village through an examination of the 1930s Soviet-Stalinist
socialist realist arts doctrine as espoused by Stalin's cultural czar Andrei Zhdanov and
Soviet writers Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev. The author in turn attempts to identify
the compositional and social functions of Chon's protagonist, an ascetic partisan youth, to
confirm his role as an exemplary socialist realistpositive hero, who embodies the nationalist …
The People of the Fighting Village through an examination of the 1930s Soviet-Stalinist
socialist realist arts doctrine as espoused by Stalin's cultural czar Andrei Zhdanov and
Soviet writers Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev. The author in turn attempts to identify
the compositional and social functions of Chon's protagonist, an ascetic partisan youth, to
confirm his role as an exemplary socialist realistpositive hero, who embodies the nationalist …
This essay investigates the problem of the North Korean positive hero in Chon Se Bong's The People of the Fighting Village through an examination of the 1930s Soviet-Stalinist socialist realist arts doctrine as espoused by Stalin's cultural czar Andrei Zhdanov and Soviet writers Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev. The author in turn attempts to identify the compositional and social functions of Chon's protagonist, an ascetic partisan youth, to confirm his role as an exemplary socialist realistpositive hero, who embodies the nationalist Stalinist ideals of North Korea during the Korean War.
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