Revolutionary literature

Japanese: 革命文学 - かくめいぶんがく
Revolutionary literature

...Yu Dafu's "Down and Out" also attracted attention by depicting a young man's anguish in a dark reality through his sexual struggles.
[The Age of Revolutionary Literature]
When the revolutionary movement was once again on the rise following the May 30th Incident in 1925, the Sozosha group raised the slogan "From literary revolution to revolutionary literature," which eventually developed into the proletarian literature movement at the end of the 1920s. For a time, there was a fierce debate over revolutionary literature between young writers from Sozosha and Taiyosha and Lu Xun and others, but at the same time, through the debate, both sides were also in the process of digesting and absorbing foreign Marxist literary theory.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "revolutionary literature" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,郁達夫の《沈淪》は,暗い現実に苦悩する青年を性のもだえを通して描き,注目をあびた。
[革命文学の時代]
 1925年の五・三〇事件を契機として,革命運動が再び高揚期を迎えると,〈文学革命から革命文学へ〉というスローガンが創造社グループによって提起され,やがてそれは20年代末にはプロレタリア文学運動となって展開した。革命文学をめぐっては,創造社や太陽社の若い文学者と魯迅などとの間で一時期激しい論戦が交わされたが,それは同時に論戦を通じて,両者がそれぞれに外来のマルクス主義文芸理論を消化,吸収していく過程でもあった。…

※「革命文学」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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