标题: 农民工与中国梦:《城市梦想》的文化情感政治
Rural Migrant Workers and the Chinese Dream: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in My City Dream
作者: 吴慧娟
Hui-Chuan WU
关键字: 农民工叙事;文化情感政治;《城市梦想》;向上流动;感恩;The narrative of rural migrant workers;The politics of emotion;My City Dream;Upward mobility;Gratitude
公开日期: 1-四月-2023
出版社: 国立阳明交通大学出版社
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Press
摘要: 本文分析中央电视台财经频道实境节目《城市梦想》所勾勒的当代农民工文化想像,如何藉由“逐梦者”身分重新定位过往被大众文化视为社会苦难化身的农民工,置换农民工向上流动“失败”的不满与愤怒,改写此群体的底层身分认同,重新拥抱晋升小康阶层的中国梦。聚焦于《城市梦想》所描绘的农民工个人生命危机与向上流动的劳动/情感结构,本文挪用并拓展学者柏兰特(Lauren Berlant)与阿曼德(Sara Ahmed)分别在《残酷的乐观主义》(Cruel Optimism)与《幸福的承诺》(The Promise of Happiness)两部作品中所探讨的情感与情绪-乐观与幸福,探究代表官方论述的《城市梦想》如何转化与重新形塑农民工的文化情感结构,使其成为体现、在地化与开创当代中国梦的新主体,并且进一步探讨梦想叙事所蕴含的文化情感政治。本文主张《城市梦想》正体现了官方叙事对底层劳动群体所进行的情感改造工程,以内在情感的重塑来建立社会大众对于农民工的新身分认同与文化想像,重新将农民工群体纳入向上流动的中国梦,但却同时又因为丧失了集体变革的可能性,使得农民工更进一步远离了中国梦所承诺的美好生活。
With a focus on the intersection between labor, migration, and affects, the paper explores how the narrative of rural migrant workers in China shapes and defines the making of a new cultural feeling toward China's rural migrant workers. By looking at how the pursuit of happiness and the good life orchestrates and recalibrates rural migrants' biopolitics and social relations, the paper studies the linked relation between migrant workers' upward mobility and the discourse of the Chinese dream, interrogating how the workers' failure unfolds other possibilities and associations with the nation's promise of happiness. Focusing on CCTV's reality show, My City Dream, the paper examines how the TV show narrates the tension between rural migrant workers' aspiration for a better life and their struggles to survive, and how rural migrant workers' life experience and social discourses compete to write and rewrite the cultural feelings pertaining to the underclass in contemporary China. Specifically, by looking at how My City Dream transforms rural migrant workers' from victims/losers" to "dreamers," a transition that puts emphasis on the remaking of the worker's feelings and interiority, the paper unfolds the cultural politics of emotion in recalibrating the relations between the individual and the social. Borrowing from and extending what Lauren Berlant and Sara Ahmed have shown in Cruel Optimism and The Promise of Happiness regarding how immigrants play as a key figure in our understanding of affects related to the vision of the good life, upward mobility, and happiness, the paper shows how the narrative of China's rural migrant workers as "dreamers," embodies, localizes, and invigorates the Chinese dream."
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6752/jcs.202304_(36).0011
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/160754
ISSN: 1816-0514
DOI: 10.6752/jcs.202304_(36).0011
期刊: 文化研究
Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies
Issue: 36
起始页: 231
结束页: 272
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