Mo Yan’s Novel Writing In The Post-colonialism Context

Mo Yan is a very unique and important writer in the history of Chinese new era literature.Researchers gradually focus on Mo Yan’s works after he won the Noble Prize in Literature in2012. This paper analyzes the connotation of Mo Yan’s novel and seeks for the reason and significance of his Noble Prize in the post-colonialism context, while this paper is mainly based on post-colonial theory and the theory of Albert Memmi, Edward Said and Gayatri C. Spivak. This paper mainly research Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Clan, Life and Death Fatigue, Sandalwood Penalty and Herbivorous family.The first chapter describes the development course and main content of post-colonial theory, while analyzes Said’s Orientalism, Spivak’s Subaltern Studies and postcolonial criticism which introduces feminist criticism.This chapter establishes a good theoretical basis for the research.Based on the perspective of eastern image in western view, this chapter analyzes the society and characters of Mo Yan’s novel. The second section describes Mo Yan’s mysterious ghost from the perspective of oriental sentiment in western view.The third section introduces the women’s living condition in Mo Yan’s novel from a perspective of women’s loss of discourse power and character.The third chapter analyzes the reason why Mo Yan won the Noble Prize in Literature in the post-colonialism context.In brief, this paper explores the hidden post colonial tendency in Mo Yan’s novel and analyzes the identification from western which brought by tendency through the post-colonialism critical research on his novel. Meanwhile, this identification from western is an impotent reason besides novel’s value which enables Mo Yan won the Noble Prize in Literature.