Magic Realism as a Critical Response to the Anthropocene

Wai Ping Yau

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6685-7_6

Magic Realism as a Critical Response to the Anthropocene

Wai Ping Yau^*

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Academy of Language and Culture

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Abstract

This chapter looks at the magic realist literature by Han and non-Han writers, including Han Shaogong, Mo Yan, and Tashi Dawa, to understand how China’s anthropogenic modernization, propagated as a national cause, has been contested by fantasy narratives, marvellous articulations and surreal elements in their fictions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene
Subtitle of host publication	Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change
Editors	Kwai-Cheung Lo, Jessica Yeung
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	6
Pages	109-129
Number of pages	21
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811366857
ISBN (Print)	9789811366840, 9789811366871
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6685-7_6
Publication status	Published - 8 May 2019

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