Abstract
There are a few scholarly interpretations of negative characters in the eight "model plays". Generally, existing scholarship is mainly dominated by two research methodologies: first, the binary of "literature and art" and "politics", "ideology" and "Utopia", and second, the formation of "subject" from the perspective of modernity. The first methodology leads to the conclusion that due to political constraint, the creative characteristic of literature has not caught due attention; while in terms of the second, "the other" becomes a sign in the subject's self-construction. By introducing Agamben's idea of biopolitics, this article re-examines the situation of Qian Shouwei and restores the complex meanings of negative characters on the level of ontology, thus revisiting the complicated relationship between literature and politics as presented in the text.
First Page
88
Recommended Citation
Chen, Yihan. 2019. "The "Expropriated" Subject: A Case Study of the Negative Character Qian Shouwei in "Model Plays"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (3): pp.88. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss3/13
