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This book takes Mo Yan's masterpiece "The Red Sorghum Family" as the research object to reveal how this "secret history of the nation" reconstructs historical memory with the wild narrative of Northeast Gaomi Township. Focusing on the core image of "red sorghum" - which is both a totem of primitive vitality and a container of love, struggle and national spirit, the book deeply analyzes the cultural significance of "bandit heroes" such as Yu Zhan'ao and Dai Fenglian in subverting traditional narratives, and shows how Mo Yan used carnival language to sublimate bloody violence into aesthetic expression. Special attention is paid to the novel's deconstruction of official history: through folk memory fragments, multiple perspectives and magical realism techniques, it presents the real and chaotic rural China during the Anti-Japanese War. Finally, through the bloody mist of the sorghum field, I question the dissolution of the blood of the nation by modern civilization in the melancholy of "the degradation of the species", and complete an affectionate review of the memory of the land and the force of life. This book is not only a literary criticism, but also a key to Mo Yan's literary universe.
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