Memories and Voices: A Book of Criticism (2024), a synopsis
Memories and Voices: A Book of Criticism (Otherland Publishing, 2024, out now) Since he published his two books of literary criticism, Bias: Offensively Chinese / Australian (Otherland Publishing, 2007, a limited edition of 200 copies, out of print now) and Beyond the Yellow Pale: Essays and Criticism (Otherland Publishing 2010, a limited edition of 100 copies, three copies left), Ouyang Yu has now brought out his third book of criticism, Memories and Voices: A Book of Criticism (Otherland Publishing, 2024), in two editions, a paperback and a limited edition of 100 copies. This book focuses on a range of issues that deeply concern the writer as a translator, self-translator, critic and self-critic as well as a poet, as shown by some of the titles, ‘Interview with Ouyang by Yu, in the Form of a Non-essay’, ‘Mo Yan, My China, Self-colonisation and Hallucination’ and ‘Self-translation and Bilingual Writing as a Transnational Writer in...
