GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of World Prose
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Example Question #11 : Identification Of World Prose After 1925
Which of the following authors wrote Red Sorghum, Pow!, and Big Breasts and Wide Hips?
Yu Hua
Su Tong
Mo Yan
Ha Jin
Xiaolu Guo
Mo Yan
This is the Chinese author Mo Yan (Mo Yan is a pen name that loosely translated means "don't speak," his given name is Guan Moye), who uses magical realism and folk tales to investigate political, sexual, and cultural identities. Yan was the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Red Sorghum was published in 1986, Pow! was published in 2003, and Big Breasts and Wide Hips was published in 1997.
Ha Jin wrote the National Book Award winning In the Pond (1999). Xiaolu Guo is an author and filmmaker whose novels include UFO in her Eyes (2009) and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (2008). Su Tong is the author of Binu and the Great Wall of China (2009). Yu Hua is a short story writer and novelist whose works include To Live (2003) and Brothers (2009).
Example Question #91 : Identification Of Prose
Which of the following is a memoir by Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston?
The Joy Luck Club
Red Sorghum
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Woman Warrior
To Live
The Woman Warrior
The correct answer is The Woman Warrior (1976), a memoir that mixes autobiographical passages with Chinese folktales in order to investigate issues of immigration, gender, culture, and ethnicity.
Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997), Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989), Mo Yan's Red Sorghum (1986), Yu Hua's To Live (1993) were used as alternative answer choices
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