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題名 | Ghost-Writing: Trauma and Queer Performativity in Taiwanese Lesbian Fiction= |
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作者 | Liou, Liang-ya; 劉亮雅; |
期刊 | Tamkang Review |
出版日期 | 20050300、20050600 |
卷期 | 35:3/4 民94.春-夏 |
頁次 | 頁235-261 |
分類號 | 826.6 |
語文 | eng |
關鍵詞 | Taiwanese lesbian fiction; Trauma; Ghost; Queer performativity; Chiu Miao-ji; Notes of the crocodile; Chang Yi-shuan; The blissful haunted house; |
英文摘要 | Due to social hostility, some Taiwanese lesbian fictions appear in the form of “ghost-writing,” concerned with the ghost-status of the lesbian. Among them, I find Chiu Miao-jin's lesbian novel Notes of the Crocodile and Chang Yi-shuan's short story “The Blissful Haunted House” particularly intriguing. Both fictions are Bildungsromans retrospectively delving into the trauma of growing up lesbian; both use queer performativity to transform shame into proud self-display and thereby produce meaning and subjectivity. Drawing from Žižek's interpretation of the Lacanian notions of the biological death and the symbolic death and the gap between them, I argue that if the patriarchal symbolic denies the existence of lesbianism and sentences the lesbian to symbolic death prior to her biological death, then the narrator of either fiction can be seen as using the public space between her and the reader to deal with the ghosting, and this also involves the Lacanian gap between the two deaths. Both narrators deploy various kinds of strategies to fight the system, presenting the lesbian as more than just a sublime ghost or a fearsome monster, for they also portray the lesbian as a child or a trickster refusing the symbolic death and mischievously donning the costumes of the ghost and the monster to terrify the straight. This paper will deal with the ghost-writing of these two fictions, exploring how the narrators alternate the tropes of the ghost and the monster with different strategies in presenting the lesbian's trauma and queer performativity and thereby renegotiate the lesbian's space in the symbolic order. |
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