The objective of this thesis is to analyze the American-Chinese novel The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston and the English translation of Chinese Red Sorghum by Mo Yan with respect to their position in the world literary context and provide a critical reading of their cultural and linguistic translations. Special attention is paid to the history and character of the world literature paradigm changing in time. The discussion pivots on the conceptualization of the world literature by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the instigator of the concept, and contemporary World Literature scholar David Damrosch who perceives World Literature as a “mode or reading and circulation”. The overarching theme of this work is World Literature's humanistic potential to promote the understanding among people of different origins and cultures and thus deconstruct the "other's" exotic nature while grounding the crux of my argument in the lofty ideas and beliefs of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Edward Said.