Perverse Taiwan

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-22796-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological manifestations, and cultural representations.

This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan’s past and present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the growing popularity of cross-dressing performance and tongzhi (gay and lesbian) cinema on the cusp of a new millennium. Together, the contributions provide a detailed account of the rise and transformations of queer cultures in post-World War II Taiwan.

By instigating new dialogues across disciplinary divides, this book will have broad appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies and queer studies, especially those interested in history, anthropology, literature, film, media, and performance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiang, Howard

Wang, Yin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Perverse Taiwan

Part I: Turning Queer in Straight Times: Reframing Genealogies

- Archiving Taiwan, Articulating Renyao

- Plural Not Singular: Homosexuality in Taiwanese Literature of the 1960s

- From Psychoanalysis to AIDS: The Early Contradictory Approaches to Gender and Sexuality and the Recourse to American Discourses during Taiwan’s Societal Transformation in the Early 1980s

Part II: Orderly Subjects of Disorderly Conducts: Redefining Positionalities

- ‘Are you a T, Po, or Bufen?’: Transnational Cultural Politics and Lesbian Identity Formation in Contemporary Taiwan

- Patrilineal Kinship and Transgender Embodiment in Taiwan

Part III: Normal Nation and Deviant Narrations: Refiguring Embodiments

- Performing Hybridity: The Music and Visual Politics of Male Cross-Dressing Performance in Taiwan

- Market Visibility: The Development and Vicissitudes of Taiwan Tongzhi Cinema

- Defacing Shame

- A Canvas of Foreign Characters: Post/Colonial Modernity in Lai Xiangyin’s ‘The Translator’ and Thereafter

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Chiang is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Yin Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.