Al-Dabbagh (English, United Arab Emirates U.) presents a study of socialist literary theory and cultural transformation. He surveys the views on literature by Marx, Lenin, and Mao. Some of the
key issues explored include the place of the writer in society, socialist realism, the Soviet and Chinese Cultural Revolutions, bourgeois regressions and otherwise opposition in Trotsky and
Gramsci, and proletarian heroism. The literature surveyed, including poetry, novels, and plays, is exclusively from former Soviet and Chinese writers. A final chapter discusses current
developments in socialist literary theory. This book is not indexed. Annotation �穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
