Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Journal issue | 59 | 2023
Research Article | Poetry and Labour(s): Chinese Workers’ Poetry from the Cultural Revolution to the Twenty-First Century

Poetry and Labour(s): Chinese Workers’ Poetry from the Cultural Revolution to the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

This paper looks at two different manifestations of workers’ poetry as a literary tradition: the poetry of workers, peasants and soldiers (gongnongbing 工农兵) and migrant workers’ poetry (dagong shige 打工诗歌) Through a comparison between three issues of Shikan 诗刊 (Poetry Monthly) from 1976 and an anthology of migrant worker’s poetry published in 2007, this study explores some of the most relevant differences between the two in terms of aesthetics and content, before addressing questions about the shifts in the positioning of workers’ poetry vis-à-vis the political and literary authority in China.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Jan. 31, 2023 | Accepted: May 9, 2023 | Published Aug. 29, 2023 | Language: en

Keywords Workers’ poetry • Migrant workers’ poetry • Contemporary Chinese literature • Sociology of literature • Labour

Copyright © 2023 Matteo Garbelli. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/014


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