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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mo Yan in context
    sub title: Nobel laureate and global storyteller
  name:
    name part: Duran, Angelica
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Huang, Yuhan
    name part: 1988-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally. The book takes the "root-seeking" movement with which Mo Yan's works are associated as a metaphor for its organizational structure. The four articles of "Part I: Leaves" focus on Mo Yan's works as world literature, exploring the long shadow his works have cast globally. Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan's English translator, explores the difficulties and rewards of interpreting his work, while subsequent articles cover issues such as censorship and the "performativity" associated with being a global author. "Part II: Trunk" explores the nativist core of Mo Yan's works. Through careful comparative treatment of related historical events, the five articles in this section show how specific literary works intermingle with China's national and international politics, its mid-twentieth-century visual culture, and its rich religious and literary conventions, including humor. The three articles in "Part III: Roots" delve into the theoretical and practical extensions of Mo Yan's works, uncovering the vibrant critical and cultural systems that ground Eastern and Western literatures and cultures. Mo Yan in Context concludes with an epilogue by sociologist Fenggang Yang, offering a personal and globally aware reflection on the recognition Mo Yan's works have received at this historical juncture.
  table of contents: Introduction to Mo Yan in context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller / Angelica Duran and Yuhan Huang -- A mutually rewarding yet uneasy and sometimes fragile relationship between author and translator / Howard Goldblatt -- The Censorship of Mo Yans The Garlic Ballads / Thomas Chen -- Representations of China and Japan in Mo Yans, Hayashis and Naruse's texts / Noriko J. Horiguchi -- Abortion in Faulkner's The Wild Palms and Mo Yan's Frog / Lanlan Du -- Rural Chineseness Mo Yan's Work and World Literature / Chengzhou He -- The Realpolitik of Mo Yans Fiction / Sabina Knight -- Mo Yans Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in a cultural and visual context / Yuhan Huang -- Mo Yan's The Garlic Ballads and Lide and Death Are Wearing Me Out in the Context of Religious and Chinese Literary Conventions / Chi-ying Alice Wang -- Religious Elements in Mo Yans and Yan Lianke's Works / Jinghui Wang -- Mo Yans work and the politics of literary humor / Alexa Huang and Angelica Duran -- Cosmopolitanism and the internationalization of Chinese literature / Ning Wang -- Variation study in Western and Chinese comparative literature / Shunqing Cao and Miaomiao Wang -- Soul Searching in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Society / Fenggang Yang.
  note: edited by Angelica Duran and Yuhan Huang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mo, Yan
      name part: 1955-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Asian
    topic: Chinese
  classification: PL2886.O1684 Z74 2014
  classification: 895.13/52
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Comparative cultural studies
  identifier: 9781557536815 (paperback)
  identifier: 1557536813 (paperback)
  identifier: 9781612493435 (epdf)
  identifier: 9781612493442 (epub)
  identifier: 2014012989
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140602
    record change date: 20151206125039.0
    record identifier: in00003520452