Abstract
After the Western left-wing movement suffered setbacks in reality, its practice experience has been transformed into a method of textual interpretation. However, there are very limited studies to question how the failure of such political practice is reborn in a new discourse. This paper tries to explain its process through the case of Jameson's transformation of Mao Zedong thought into aesthetic. The transformation finds its expression in three aspects: 1) theory travel — variation occurs as the text travels; 2) the impact of the practice — deviance happens when the text is decontextualized; and 3) the transformative borrowing — the signifier is preserved and the signified modified. In Jameson's view, Mao Zedong thought and practice is a point of departure for theoretical reflections in this regard, thus becoming an idealized "other".
First Page
202
Last Page
210
Recommended Citation
Wu, Yuyu. 2016. "From Discourse of Political Practiceto Strategy for Cultural Interpretation: Jameson's Aesthetic Transformation of Mao Zedong Thought." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (6): pp.202-210. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss6/8
