Abstract
One important aspect of Wang Meng's novel The Young Newcomer to the Department of Organization and other so-called "Against-Current (Niliu) Novels" is the questioning, exposing and challenging of the way power is represented and worked and the way power is related to its representation and working in these novels, but this has been overlooked for quite a long time in the research scholarship. The paper argues that these novels call into interpellation the representation and working of power in reality while the imagination of power permeated in these novels performs the function of interpellation similar to the in-practice power interplay. What is more, the powerful institution put the novels into the purging system of power while the novels are not accommodated by the power system and become the target of re-purging.
First Page
120
Last Page
129
Recommended Citation
Cao, Qinghua. 2015. "Representation, Working and Imagination of Power: A Study on "The Young Newcomer to the Department of Organization" and other "Against-Current Novels"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (2): pp.120-129. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss2/13
