Queering Taiwan Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-981-9258-49-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Sinophone and Taiwan Studies

Ku'er, the Mandarin transliteration of the English word "queer," has a distinctively Taiwanese genealogy, as implied in the homophonic meaning of being "cool." This volume examines the interrelationships between queer studies and Taiwan studies, from placing Taiwanese history and culture on the map of queer inquiry to the queering of Taiwan studies (e.g., situating intersectional analysis in a transpacific circuit). Does queer Taiwan studies mean a focus on queer content, or is "queering" a method that can be used in studying any content in Taiwan studies? In light of the emergence of queer indigenous studies and queer of color critique in North America, how might we consider the question of indigeneity, race, and ethnicity in queering Taiwan studies? Ultimately, what can a focus on Taiwan do to exceed the existing limits of queer theory, and how might the method of queering advance the transgressive potential of Taiwan studies?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiang, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Is Queer Indigeneity Comparable? Trajectories of Racial Capitalism in Taiwan.- 'In Our Kingdom': Queer Space-Making in Settler Colonial Taiwan.- Queerness as: Indigenous Desire, Ethnicity, and Disciplinarity in Taiwan Studies.- Throwing Like a Colonized Girl: A Phenomenology of Female-Female Eroticism in Taiwan Under Japan.- Fashioning a Taiwanese Queer Narratology: Yang Shuang-zi's Blooming Season as Me-kak Tactic.- Taiwan Queers, Hong Kong Allegories, and Macau Utopias: Lesbian Love and National Narratives in Butterfly (2004).- From Coolie to Ku'er: Racial Capitalism, Queer of Color Critique, and the Production of Pork and Surplus Value in Taiwan.- Queering Folk Culture, Local Identity, and Nativist Literature.- The Queer Time and Place of Taiwanese Millennial Pop.- Queer Taiwan in War Times: The Problem of Perpetual Cold Warism in Queer Theory.- A Legal-Political Perspective of 'Queer' in Taiwan: Analysis of J.Y. Interpretation 748 and the Act for Implementing Interpretation 748.- The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan: A Perspective of Digital Activism 'from Below' with Perplexing National Identifications.- Afterword.

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Chiang holds the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies (by appointment), Professor of History and Feminist Studies (by courtesy), and Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies. He also serves as an honorary Chair Professor and Yushan Scholar at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University.