Queer Sinophone Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415622943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 236 str.

Howard Hsueh Chiang; Larissa N. Heinrich

Opis

The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender.

Bringing together two areas of study that tend to be marginalised within their home disciplines" Queer Sinophone Cultures" innovatively advances both Sinophone studies and queer studies. It not only examines film and literature from Mainland China but expands its scope to encompass the underrepresented Sinophone world at large (in this case Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and beyond). Further, where queer studies in the U.S., Europe, and Australia often ignore non-Western cultural phenomena, this book focuses squarely on Sinophone queerness, providing fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from works by the famous director Tsai Ming-Liang to the history of same-sex soft-core pornography made by the renowned Shaw Brothers Studios.

By instigating a dialogue between Sinophone studies and queer studies, this book will have broad appeal to students and scholars of modern and contemporary China studies, particularly to those interested in film, literature, media, and performance. It will also be of great interest to those interested in queer studies more broadly.

Spis treści

1. "A Volatile Alliance": Queer Sinophone Synergies Across Literature, Film, and Culture 2. (De)Provincializing China: Queer Historicism and Sinophone Postcolonial Critique 3. Unraveling the Apparatus of Domestication: Zhu Tianxin’s "The Ancient Capital" and Queer Engagements with the Nation-State in Post-Martial Law Taiwan 4. From Flowers to Boys: Queer Adaptations in Wu Jiwen’s The Fin-de-siècle Boy Love Reader 5. Sinophone Erotohistories: The Shaw Brothers’ Queering of a Transforming "Chinese Dream" in Ainu Fantasies 6. Queer Sinophone Studies as Anti-Capitalist Critique: Mapping Queer Kinship in the Work of Chen Ran and Wong Bik-Wan, 7. A Queer Journey Home in Solos: Rethinking Kinship in Sinophone Singapore 8. Theatrics of Cruising: Bathhouses and Movie Houses in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Films 9. Queerly Connecting: The Queer Sinophone Politics of Tsai Ming-Liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone 10. Desire Against the Grain: Transgender Consciousness and Sinophonicity in the Films of Yasmin Ahmad 11. Queer Affiliations: Mak Yan Yan’s Butterfly as Sinophone Romance 12. On the Conjunctive Method