... such configurations through Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2008). In the novel, narrated largely by the reincarnated specter of an executed landlord, desire and loss travel between historical, carnal, and cosmic registers while operations of violence, politics, and memory both evoke and depart from...

... and the Censor: Loss in Parallax,” Emily Ng reorients the problem of survival by turning to modern China and Mo Yan's novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out . Drawing on Buddhist cosmopolitics, she argues that witnessing loss, surviving, must be understood by multiplying lives and letting go. Ng teases out...