Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Comparative Cultural Studies .
- Comparative Cultural Studies .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Note -- Introduction to Mo Yan in Context: Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller -- Part One: Leaves -- A Mutually Rewarding yet Uneasy and Sometimes Fragile Relationship between Author and Translator -- The Censorship of Mo Yan's 天堂 之歌 (The Garlic Ballads) -- Representations of "China" and "Japan" in Mo Yan's, Hayashi's, and Naruse's Texts -- Abortion in Faulkner's The Wild Palms and Mo Yan's (Frog) -- Rural Chineseness, Mo Yan's Work, and World Literature -- Part Two: Trunk -- The Realpolitik of Mo Yan's Fiction -- Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in a Cultural and Visual Context -- Mo Yan's The Garlic Ballads and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in the Context of Religious and Chinese Literary Conventions -- Religious Elements in Mo Yan's and Yan Lianke's Works -- Mo Yan's Work and the Politics of Literary Humor -- Part Three: Roots -- Cosmopolitanism and the Internationalization of Chinese Literature -- Variation Study in Western and Chinese Comparative Literature -- A Textbook Case of Comparative Cultural Studies -- Epilogue -- Soul Searching in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Society -- Selected Bibliography of and about Mo Yan's Work in Chinese and English -- Index.
This is the first multi-author English-language critical analysis of the work of Mo Yan, recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. As well as exploring the Chinese writer's literary contributions, the authors reflect on his global influence and context.