Wang Shuo established a new discursive space written from the
perspective of the liumang or "player" within the burgeoning pop
culture of the late 1980s. Wang Shuo"s roles as a cultural mirror
and a social agent are not mutually exclusive, but interact with
each other in a complex dialogue involving a number of social and
political actors. Re-articulating Literary Dissent seeks to explore
the implications of the term "literary dissent" during the
late-1980s in China by examining Wang Shuo"s 1989 novel, Playing
for Thrills. After an extensive examination of the novel, the
analysis concludes that it is subversive of the ideology of the
literary and the political establishment, arguing for the fickle
use of the term "literary dissent" and the inconsistency with which
it is used. Labeling something as literary dissent - a rhetorical
move to transform artists into political pawns - illuminates more
the political motives of the powers who use it than the potentially
subversive nature of the works which the term is used to describe.
Inconsistent politicization of the term destabilizes its authority
and makes visible the political manipulations of representation
that inform its use.
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