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Visual Sensation and Performative Cultural Politics: Chinese Literary Text Messages and the Colors of Texts

Huang, Wang
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275499580

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2010, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
This thesis discusses the performative cultural politics of Chinese literary text messages. Literary compositions of text messages have developed into a hybrid popular and folk literary genre in the hypermedia of cell phone. After investigating the creation, circulation, and consumption of literary text messages as well as their literary and cultural properties, I discuss the political performativity of such texts in negotiating power on the representational, technological, and socio-political levels. By playing with the fluid identities of sender and receiver of the text, subjects exchange relations with each other interpassively, and negotiate their relationships with the symbolic order of representation. The users’ particular experience of poeticity of mathematic models and tempo of visuality dominating the text enables them to resist the potential alientating power of technology. The colors of these texts, as part of a larger cultural phenomenon of politicization of color codes, are related to particular hegemonic negotiations. The yellow, gray, and black literary text messages counteract the unifying power of the colors red and green, thus negotiating counter-hegemonic cultural spaces and implying further decentering and multi-loci of power. This analysis of multi-layered cultural politics that literary text messages involve enables us to better understand the postmodern condition and specific socio-cultural scenerios in contemporary China.
Heather Inwood (Advisor)
Kirk Denton (Committee Member)
152 p.
Asian Literature

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  • Huang, W. (2010). Visual Sensation and Performative Cultural Politics: Chinese Literary Text Messages and the Colors of Texts [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275499580

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Huang, Wang. Visual Sensation and Performative Cultural Politics: Chinese Literary Text Messages and the Colors of Texts. 2010. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275499580.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Huang, Wang. "Visual Sensation and Performative Cultural Politics: Chinese Literary Text Messages and the Colors of Texts." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275499580

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