The Transformation of Peripheral Narratives and Multiple Modernities——Reconstructing the Relationship between The Sound and the Fury, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Red Sorghum

WU Mengyu

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247106

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WU Mengyu. The Transformation of Peripheral Narratives and Multiple Modernities——Reconstructing the Relationship between The Sound and the Fury, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Red Sorghum[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2024, 7(1): 111-123. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247106

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WU Mengyu. The Transformation of Peripheral Narratives and Multiple Modernities——Reconstructing the Relationship between The Sound and the Fury, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Red Sorghum[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2024, 7(1): 111-123. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247106

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The Transformation of Peripheral Narratives and Multiple Modernities——Reconstructing the Relationship between The Sound and the Fury, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Red Sorghum

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247106

WU Mengyu^,

School of Foreign Studies

Received Date: 2023-10-20
Accepted Date: 2024-01-05

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Peripheral narratives are featured by a twist of perspective in the binary framework of modernity/center-tradition/periphery opposition, which reconstructs the local culture while complementing the unitary modernity. The literary relationship between William Faulkner, García Márquez and Mo Yan demonstrates the communication between West-centric modernity and locality as well as the transition from unitary temporal narratives to diverse spatial narratives. Proceeding from the perspective of literary geography, their relationships can be defined as rheological relations in a trinity framework of borderland, narrative, and imagination.Relying on local geography and family destiny, their works employ various techniques, such as the spatialization of time, the integration of fiction and reality, and scattered narratives, in order to tend to the complicated relationship between geography and history, character and locality as well as nationality and worldliness, and thus portraying different national imaginations. The reconstruction of the relationship among the three writers reveals the role of peripheral regions in deconstructing West-centric modernity, triggers multiple modernities and unfolds a differential space that respects cultural diversity and honors multiple modernities.
- literary geography,
- modernity,
- periphery,
- multiple modernities

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