Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller / / edited by Angelica Duran, Yuhan Huang.
"This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer's work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a spec...
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Place / Publishing House: | West Lafayette : : Purdue University Press,, 2014. ©2014. |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Comparative cultural studies.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgment
- Note
- Introduction to Mo Yan in Context: Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller / Angelica Duran and Yuhan Huang
- Part One: Leaves
- A Mutually Rewarding yet Uneasy and Sometimes Fragile Relationship between Author and Translator / Howard Goldblatt
- The Censorship of Mo Yan's 天堂蒜薹之歌 (The Garlic Ballads) / Thomas Chen
- Representations of "China" and "Japan" in Mo Yan's, Hayashi's, and Naruse's Texts / Noriko J. Horiguchi
- Abortion in Faulkner's The Wild Palms and Mo Yan's 蛙 (Frog) / Lanlan Du
- Rural Chineseness, Mo Yan's Work, and World Literature / Chengzhou He
- Part Two: Trunk
- The Realpolitik of Mo Yan’s Fiction / Sabina Knight
- Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in a Cultural and Visual Context / Yuhan Huang
- Mo Yan's "The Garlic Ballads" and "Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out" in the Context of Religious and Chinese Literary Conventions / Chi-ying Alice Wang
- Religious Elements in Mo Yan's and Yan Lianke's Works / Jinghui Wang
- Mo Yan's Work and the Politics of Literary Humor / Alexa Huang and Angelica Duran
- Part Three: Roots
- Cosmopolitanism and the Internationalization of Chinese Literature / Ning WangvVariation Study in Western and Chinese Comparative Literature / Shunqing Cao and Miaomiao Wang
- A Textbook Case of Comparative Cultural Studies / Donald Mitchell and Angelica Duran
- Epilogue
- Soul Searching in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Society / Fenggang Yang
- Selected Bibliography of and about Mo Yan's Work in Chinese and English / Angelica Duran and Yuhan Huang
- Index.