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Weapons of Subaltern Weak:Individual Performance,Exception Discourse and Body Violence

LIN Zhongxuan   

  1. (School of Communication and Design,Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510006,China)
  • Online:2018-11-01 Published:2018-10-16

Abstract: Compared with the subaltern politics in India and Southeast Asia,Chinese subaltern contentious politics has its own localized characteristics,relying on weapons of individual performance,exception discourse,and body violence.Firstly,it is the individual performance that becomes the polarization of individual contention in Chinese subaltern politics,rather than the collective contention of communities or the hidden transcripts of individuals.Secondly,the discourse of exception is not used to ask for temperance and mercy on the subaltern themselves,but strategically appropriated by subaltern people to identify their antagonistic others.Thirdly,the violence in Chinese subaltern politics is mostly the violence of the weak,rather than the violence of the powerful,and the violence on the self,rather than the violence on the others.

Key words: subaltern studies, weapons of the weak, performance, exception, violence

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