Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2010, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (1): 205-.

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May the Subaltern Have a Voice:A Critical Review of the “BitternessExpressing” Genre

 Ma Dandan   

  1. Iustitute of Anthropology Shanghai University
  • Online:2010-01-20 Published:2010-01-20

Abstract:

The author has reviewed the special genre of “bitterness expressing” in the Chinese experience. This genre covers a variety of bitternessexpressing narratives, the purpose of which is not for discharging bitterness itself but for criticizing the national genealogy via the “bitternessexpressing” genre. The controlling energy of the possessed entailed in the major identity cultivated by the bitternessexpressing power has taken in a buffered region coconstructed by the researchers of the subaltern and the desire of the major identity. Nevertheless, due to the critics of the national genealogy being dependent, the nodes in the “bitternessexpressing” genre dismantling the enclosed modern fables, the extended sufferings differentiating the subaltern, and the division of the civilian being delayed, the predicament of the intellectuals’ “intermediation” has thus been revealed.

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