Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) ›› 2005, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 48-54, 121, 122.

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The"Suffered Elite"and the "Laboring"Women

Xu LIU   

  • Received:2005-06-02 Online:2005-07-01 Published:2005-04-25

Abstract:

One of the important characteristics of the intellectual's reflective fiction consists in the intellectual who returned to his glory through his sufferings; during the course of his meeting with misfortune some subaltern persons, especially subaltern laboring women, expressed their favor and even cult towards such an intellectual.Behind it are the intellectual's narcissism and arbitrary distorting of subalterns, which is a typical expression of the writer's elite consciousness.It shows the writer's egotism in his unconscious mind and also peripheralization of subalterns' sufferings.The higher rank these"suffered elite"possessed when they came back to their previous positions, the more those past subalterns became peripheral.

Key words: subaltern, elite consciousness, narcissism, distortion

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