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