Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032236803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 246 str.

Howard Chiang; Alvin K. Wong

Opis

This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Queer Sinophone Studies: Intellectual Synergies  2. Transpacific – Transfiguring Asian North America and the Sinophonic in Jia Qing Wilson-Yang’s Small Beauty  3. Viscerality – Choreographies of Flesh: The Geopolitics of Visceral Violence in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)  4. Postcoloniality – Postcoloniality beyond China-centrism: Queer Sinophone Transnationalism in Hong Kong Cinema  5. Ethnicity – A Queerness of Relation: The Plight of the ‘Ethnic Minority’ in Chan Koon-Chung’s Bare Life  6. Liminality – So Happy Together… Too: Contemporary Philippine Gay Comedy and the Queering of Chinese-Filipino Liminality  7. Fandom – Transcultural Desires and Lesbian Fandom: Takarazuka Revue in Taiwan  8. Adaptation – Recognition, Reproach, Repression: The Ren Likui Case in 1947 Tianjin and the Cultural Politics of Homosexual Murder in the Sinophone World  9. Intermediality – "A Weird Concept’: Queer Intermediality in Dung Kai-cheung’s Fiction  10. Activism – Language, Class, and the Hoenggong-Gwailou Divide in Hong Kong LGBTI Activism  11. Residual – The Polite Residuals of Heteronormativity: Legalizing Transgender Marriage from the European Court of Human Rights to Sinophone Hong Kong

O autorze

Howard Chiang is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author of After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China and co-editor of Queer Sinophone Cultures.

Alvin K. Wong is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. His research covers Hong Kong culture, Sinophone studies, and queer theory.