英文摘要 |
With a focus on the display of the writer's feeling, the essay explores the politics of emotions and its cultural implication in the narratives of China's rural migrant workers in Liang Hong's non-fiction. Liang Hong's turn to the making of her own interiority in the texts, which serves as her readers' emotional surrogate, rethinks the politics of emotions in how non-fiction mediates and shapes the cultural understanding of China's rural migrant workers and the process of knowledge production about this marginal group. In the process of narrativizing her emotions, such as compassion, pity, indifference, alienation, and shame, Liang explores the connection between affective economies and literary journalism. The essay argues that Liang's emphasis on the making of the writer's interiority, on the one hand, explores the linkage between emotions and knowledge and rearticulates the aesthetics of literary journalism. On the other hand, her non-fiction work reconsiders the cultural representation of China's rural migrant workers, showing the possibilities, limits, and power relations of compassion as the core value of modernity and humanism. At the same time, Liang's non-fiction narratives reimagine and reshape the emotions and social relations of China's emerging middle class. |