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- Title
The Literary Ideas of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il: An Introduction to North Korean Meta-Authorial Perspectives.
- Authors
David-West, Alzo
- 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.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; KIM, Jong-il, 1941-2011; KIM, Il-song, 1912-1994; KOREAN literature; SOCIALIST realism; STALINISM
- Publication
Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, 2009, Vol 12, p1
- ISSN
1097-3087
- Publication type
Essay