Apr 15, 2017 15:01
7 yrs ago
Spanish term

mujikismo

Spanish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
This is actually from a summary of a text by a Peruvian author:

El indigenismo literario, por lo tanto, “traduce un estado de ánimo, casi un estado de consciencia del Perú nuevo”. Compara el indigenismo con el “mujikismo” de la literatura rusa prerrevolucionaria y explica cómo influyó espiritualmente en la socialización de la tierra llevada a cabo, posteriormente, por la revolución bolchevique.

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Proposed translations

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idealization of the Russian peasant/muzhik

An alternative, as I can't find many examples of "muzhikism/mujikism", apart from a few texts translated from Spanish, all from Mariátegui. There is no doubt that "mujik" and its alternatives exist, but "mujikismo" is not very popular. I think it refers to the idealization of the "mujik" in literature.

This is a translation from Spanish, but explains the concept.
"This indigenism, which is in germination and still needs time to flower and bear fruit, might be compared—allowing for all differences in time and space—with the “muzhikism” of pre-revolutionary Russian literature. Muzhikism was bound up with the first phase of social unrest that prepared and incubated the Russian revolution. Muzhikist literature performed a historical mission by putting Russian feudalism on trial and condemning it with no possibility of appeal. The muzhikist novel and poetry were prodromes in the socialization of land as carried out by the Bolshevik revolution. It does not matter that the Russian novelist and poet had no thought of socialization when they portrayed the muzhik, nor does it matter whether they caricatured or idealized him."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpreti...

memory and mythmaking: post- emancipation - Carolina Digital ...
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:f5efe215-5d62-...
LEO TOLSTOY AND THE IDEALIZATION OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANT. No Russian noble did more to promote and spread the Peasant myth than Leo. Tolstoy.

A People Passing Rude - 11. Stephen Graham and Russian ...
books.openedition.org/obp/1579
... 'probably more responsible than anyone else in this country for the cult of Holy Russia and the idealization of the Russian peasant that was beginning to make ...

Peer comment(s):

agree neilmac
18 hrs
Thanks, Neil.
agree Yvonne Gallagher : I'd use an explanation with the term
1 day 15 hrs
Thanks, Gallagy.
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moujikism / muzhikism

It's from the Russian "muzhik" or "moujik", meaning peasant:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moujik
Peer comment(s):

neutral Cecilia Gowar : Yes, moujik is Russian peasant in English, but "mujikismo" seems to be a word created by Mariátegui and does not seem to have the same connotation in English.
42 mins
I think an English-language author is no less entitled than a Spanish one to add the suffix -ism to a Russian word!
agree philgoddard : This is fine. The Spanish assumes that you know what a muzhik is.
3 hrs
agree neilmac : My boss used to call me "Muzjhik" because my degree is in Russian...
21 hrs
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Reference comments

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Reference:

https://books.google.com.jm/books?id=JQufpqD7BBUC&pg=PA153&l...

(See pg. 158) where "mujikismo" is left as is.

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Oops! Page 153.

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Note added at 28 mins (2017-04-15 15:29:27 GMT)
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https://archive.org/stream/leotolstoygrand00perrgoog#page/n2...
see pg 210 and 213: "So if I speak of Mujikism and call Tolstoy the Grand Mujik, I am not belittling Tolstoy, but I am magnifying the mujik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujik
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Cecilia Gowar : Again, talking about Mariátegui: "he compared Peruvian literary indigenismo with 'mujikismo in pre-revolutionary Russia" https://goo.gl/1ow347
54 mins
Thank you Cecilia. I got your note and owe you one!
agree MarinaM
1 hr
Gracias Marina.
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