Abstract
This paper delineates Yan Lianke's literary status in line with David Damrosch's tripartite definition of world literature, and then reexamines the bipolar assessments of modern Chinese literature in Western Sinology in terms of international cultural politics as represented by the Nobel Prize in Literature. With reference to two key words in Mo Yan's Nobel acceptance speech — "human" and "transcendence" — the paper further explores the contemporary transformation of realism and Yan Lianke's "spiritual realism" in theory and practice.
First Page
57
Last Page
64
Recommended Citation
Yingjin, Zhang. 2015. "Yan Lianke and Chinese Literature in the Perspective of World Literature." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (4): pp.57-64. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss4/23
