DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_L312171
Authors: Xiaoping Song
Abstract: Mo Yan belongs to that generation of writers whose literary works have become the milestones. The novella, Red Sorghum (as in contrast with the novel) by Mo Yan provides a compelling example for that thematic and formalistic literary transformation. In Red Sorghum, the first person narrator, through re-construction of time and history and with his personal quest and self-redemption, puts a full stop to the historical drama of the red sorghum clan. By the intensive exercise of mind and narrative structural manipulations, the third generation of the red sorghum saga has achieved moral, intellectual and spiritual transcendence which involves the narrator, the writer as well as the red sorghum readers.
Keywords: Mo Yan; Red Sorghum; narrative; time; history; self
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