Zhen-Ni Kuang

Becoming Non-Human: Narrative Sovereignty and the Production of Bare Life in Lu Xun’s The Diary of a Madman and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

— The relationship between literary form and political power has long been a central concern of comparative literary studies. Dehumanization, as a recurrent theme across modernist fiction, has been examined extensively at the level of content, yet its formal dimensions remain underexplored. This paper discusses the fun...