The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke

Herausgeber: Moratto, Riccardo; Yuen Fung Choy, Howard

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Produktbeschreibung

Yan Lianke is one of the most important, prolific, and controversial writers in contemporary China. At the forefront of the "mythorealist" Chinese avant-garde and using absurdist humor and grotesque satire, Yan's works have caught much critical attention not only in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan but also around the world. His critiques of modern China under both Mao-era socialism and contemporary capitalism draw on a deep knowledge of history, folklore, and spirituality. This companion presents a collection of critical essays by leading scholars of Yan Lianke from around the world, organized into some of the key themes of his work: Mythorealism; Absurdity and Spirituality; and History and Gender, as well as the challenges of translating his work into English and other languages. With an essay written by Yan Lianke himself, this is a vital and authoritative resource for students and scholars looking to understand Yan's works from both his own perspective and those of leading critics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780367700973
• ISBN-10: 0367700972
• Artikelnr.: 69930477

Autorenporträt

Riccardo Moratto is Full Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Chinese Translation and Interpreting at the Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation (GIIT), Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), and Honorary Guest Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University. Prof. Moratto is a Chartered Linguist and Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIoL), Visiting Scholar at Shandong University, Honorary Research Fellow at the Center for Translation Studies of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Expert Member of the Translators Association of China (TAC). Prof. Moratto is also an international conference interpreter and a renowned literary translator. He has published extensively in the fields of translation and interpreting studies and Chinese literature in translation. Howard Yuen Fung Choy, Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Colorado. Chief editor of the Brill series Hong Kong Culture and Literature and African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, co-editor of Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays (2021), editor of Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and Body in Modern China (2016), the author of Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (2008), and the assistant author of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism (2005), he has also published articles and translations in major scholarly journals, including positions, American Journal of Chinese Studies, and Asian Theatre Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Mythorealism & Censorship 1. Yan Lianke's Mythorealist
Representation of the Country and the City 2. Building Chinese Reality with
Language and Metaphor: From Socialist Realism to Mythorealism 3.
Mythorealism, the Absurd, and Existential Despair in Yan Lianke's Memoir
and Fiction: Confronting the Fate of Sisyphus in Modern China's Historical
Traumas 4. Magical Realism, Mythorealism and the Re-presentation of History
in the Works of Yan Lianke 5. Mythorealism or Pararealism? Yan Lianke's
Short Fiction as a Key to Enter the Author's Representational World 6.
Censure and Censorship: Prohibition and Presence of Yan Lianke's Writings
in China Part II: Absurdity & Spirituality 7. The Absurd as Method: The
Chinese Absurdist Hero, Enchanted Power, and the Alienated Poor in Yan
Lianke's Military Literature 8. Yan Lianke and Italo Calvino on the
Absurdity of Urban Life 9. "Inverse Theology" in Yan Lianke's Four Books
and Franz Kafka's The Trial 10. Elements of Modernism and the Grotesque in
Yan Lianke's Early Fiction 11. Representing the Intellectuals in Yan
Lianke's Recent Writing: An Exile of the Soul 12. The Dream, the Disease,
and the Disaster: On Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village 13. Yan Lianke's
Novel Heart Sutra: The Kiss of the Rock and the Egg 14. The Redemption of
the Peach Blossom Spring: An Examination of the Human Condition in Yan
Lianke's Zhongyuan Part III: History & Gender 15. Creating a Literary Space
to Debate the Mao Era: The Fictionalization of the Great Leap Forward in
Yan Lianke's Four Books 16. Disability, Revolution, and Historiography:
Grandma Maozhi in Lenin's Kisses 17. Corrective Catachresis: Capitalist
Mystification Derailed in The Explosion Chronicles and "The Story of
Fertile Town" 18. Reconstructing the Self through Herstory: On Yan Lianke's
Tamen (Shes) 19. Female Labor, the Third Sex, and Excrescence in Yan
Lianke's Nonfiction 20. A Geocritical Study of Yan Lianke's Balou Mountain
Stories: The Utopian Cognitive Mapping in Post-1949 China 21. An
Ecocritical Approach to Yan Lianke's Literary Works 22. Paratextual
Encounters in Yan Lianke's Fictional Worlds: Reading between the Lines
Part IV: Translation & Reception 23. Ideological Patterns in the Critical
Reception of Yan Lianke: A Comparative Approach 24. The Challenge of
Translating Yan Lianke's Literary Creation 25. Yan Lianke in Basque: Notes
on Translating Sensory Images 26. The Translation and Reception of Yan
Lianke in France 27. The Treacherous "News That Stays News": The Four Books
in Czech Translation 28. Translating the Chinese Cultural Other: Yan
Lianke's Shouhuo in English Translation 29. The Translation and Reception
of Yan Lianke in Japan 30. The Translation and Reception of Yan Lianke's
Fiction in Vietnam 31. The Reception and Significance of Yan Lianke's Works
in Taiwan 32. The Reception of Yan Lianke in Hong Kong