Situating Sexualities : Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture


Fran. Martin
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Hong Kong : : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, , 2003.
Omfang
1 online resource (373 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Note to Reader; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mobile Knowledges - Sexualities in Globalization; Section 1: The National, the Global and the Local in New Park; 1 Nationalism, Reproduction, Homosexuality: Political Critiques of Crystal Boys; 2 Happy Hopeful Citizens and Critical Queers: Interpreting The New New Park; 3 Postmodern Cities and Viral Subjects: Notes of a Desolate Man; Section 2: 'Family' Revalued; 4 Hybrid Citations: Chen Xue's Queer Tactics; 5 Globally Chinese at The Wedding Banquet; 6 Perverse Utopia: Reading The River. - Section 3: Representing the Subject of Tongxinglian7 The Closet, the Mask and The Membranes'; 8 The Crocodile Unmasked: Toward a Theory of Xianshen; Conclusion; Notes; Chinese Character List; Bibliography; Index. - This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Positioned at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial cultural studies, this book intervenes in current debates on sexuality and globalization to argue that the current emergence of public, dissident sexualities in non-Western locations like Taiwan cannot be reduced to the effects of homogenizing 'Westernization'.
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Dewey
300
ISBN
9622096190. - 9789622096196

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