Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream
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Rojas, C
Published in: Chinese Literature Today
January 1, 2021
Through a comparative analysis of Yan Lianke’s The Day the Sun Died with James Joyce’s Ulysses and Lu Xun’s almost precisely contemporaneous collection Call to Arms, this essay considers the ways in which Yan Lianke’s novel uses motifs of death and “dreamwalking” to reflect on more abstract processes of representation and textual mediation. In particular, this essay argues that the trope of somnambulism in The Day the Sun Died is not merely an example of Yan’s mythorealist representational approach, it simultaneously offers a useful framework through which to understand mythorealism’s underlying representational logic.
Duke Scholars
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Chinese Literature Today
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2156-8634
ISSN
2151-4399
Publication Date
January 1, 2021
Volume
10
Issue
1
Start / End Page
25 / 33
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Rojas, C. (2021). Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream. Chinese Literature Today, 10(1), 25–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2021.1916369
Rojas, C. “Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream.” Chinese Literature Today 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 25–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2021.1916369.
Rojas C. Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream. Chinese Literature Today. 2021 Jan 1;10(1):25–33.
Rojas, C. “Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream.” Chinese Literature Today, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 25–33. Scopus, doi:10.1080/21514399.2021.1916369.
Rojas C. Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream. Chinese Literature Today. 2021 Jan 1;10(1):25–33.
Published In
Chinese Literature Today
DOI
EISSN
2156-8634
ISSN
2151-4399
Publication Date
January 1, 2021
Volume
10
Issue
1
Start / End Page
25 / 33