Narrating Translocality
Dagong Poetry and the Subaltern Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7921023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wanning Sun (0000-0002-8687-3739, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291-309 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17450101.2010.494837 |
| OpenAlex | W2076765144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 25 |
In Chinese, ‘dagong’ means ‘working for the boss’. Dagong migrants constitute the most populous group of China's mobile population, so knowledge of their cultural practices is crucial to understanding how globalisation and mobility rework people's sense of locality. This paper is an analysis of poems by dagong workers – a cultural phenomenon that is relatively unknown both outside and inside China. Drawing on ethnographic insights into China's rural migrants, this paper engages the concept of translocality to explore three recurring themes in dagong poetry: alienation of the body in the industrial regime; displacement and homesickness; and disenchantment with the south. The analysis shows that, for the same reason that mobility itself is a stratified process, the means of addressing translocal desires and longings are also stratified
Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · China · Disenchantment · Ethnography · Geography · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?
Feminism and geography
Mapping the Futures
Creating Chinese Ethnicity
Translocal China
New Masters, New Servants
Globalizing South China
China, Sex and Prostitution
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The Radicalisation of the New Chinese Working Class
Desiring China
The Romance of Resistance
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| Citations per year | 0.69 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |