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Mo Yan Thought

Six Critiques of Hallucinatory Realism

Jerry Xie author Wojciech H Kalaga editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:1st Dec '17

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This book analyzes Mo Yan’s writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. When Mo Yan from China was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the term «hallucinatory realism» was invented to describe his storytelling as a «merging» of folk tales, history, and the contemporary. The author stakes out a Marxist approach to theorizing the class ideology that underwrites what Mo Yan says he «knows» of the «nebulous terrain» where one supposedly experiences moments of «transcending» or going «beyond» class and politics in literary sensibility.

ISBN: 9783631731086

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 460g

288 pages

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