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Jacques Rancière’s Left-wing Literary Theory and Mao Zedong’s Thought on Literature and Art
Abstract The publication of French translations of Mao’s canonical works in the 1950s and 1960s sparked interest among French-left intellectuals. This paper investigates Rancière’s appropriation and reinvention of Mao’s thinking as an illustration of the exchange between Maoism and contemporary French left-wing theories on literature and art. First, drawing on Mao’s “mass line,” Rancière values the autonomy of the people rather than the leadership of the Althusserian intellectual elites. Second, Rancière’s “part of those that have no part” differs from Mao’s “the people” in the concept’s scope and in how they are transformed into political subjects. Third, deeply indebted to Mao’s “the people’s literature and art” that underscores the centrality of ordinary people and their lives, Rancière’s theory of politics of literature unleashes the liberating force of art and literature for the sensible of ordinary people, and calls for overthrowing the hierarchy of class politics.
期刊介绍:
An established journal of reference inviting all critical approaches on the latest debates and issues in the field, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (formerly known as SITES) provides a forum not only for academics, but for novelists, poets, artists, journalists, and filmmakers as well. In addition to its focus on French and Francophone studies, one of the journal"s primary objectives is to reflect the interdisciplinary direction taken by the field and by the humanities and the arts in general. CF&FS is published five times per year, with four issues devoted to particular themes, and a fifth issue, “The Open Issue” welcoming non-thematic contributions.