In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer's work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally.

Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk s novels. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. By contextualizing Pamuk s fiction into the Turkish tradition and by defining the literary and political intersections of his work, "Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy" rereads Pamuk's dissidence as a factor of the form of his novels.

This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. The book examines the entire range of her writing, including her most recent fiction and non-fiction, which have been comparatively neglected.

The first critical guide to all Seaums Heaney's writings -- poetry, prose and translations.