Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture - Hardcover

Martin, Fran

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9789622096196: Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture

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ISBN 10: 9622096190 ISBN 13: 9789622096196

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, 2003

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This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Positioned at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial cultural studies, this book intervenes in current debates on sexuality and globalization to argue that the current emergence of public, dissident sexualities in non-Western locations like Taiwan cannot be reduced to the effects of homogenizing ‘Westernization’. Instead, Situating Sexualities approaches the queer sexualities represented in recent Taiwanese fiction, film and public culture as dynamic formations that combine local knowledge with globalizing discourses on gay and lesbian identity to produce sexualities that are multiple, shifting and inherently hybrid. Equally, the book pushes out the limits of ‘queer’ to challenge the Eurocentrism of much queer theory to date. Consistently critical of essentializing accounts of ‘Chinese’ culture, the book nevertheless highlights some of the important ways in which Taiwanese formations of dissident sexuality differ from the familiar Euro-American formations.

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About the Author:

Fran Martin is Lecturer in Cinema Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She has published extensively on queer politics and culture in Taiwan.

Review:

“Situating Sexualities is an important book for anyone who wants a sophisticated and politically savvy analysis of gay and lesbian cultural productions in the Chinese-speaking world.” ― John Nguyet Erni, Department of English and Communication, City Unive

“Situating Sexualities is a breakthrough in queer, cultural, feminist, Taiwan, ‘Chinese’, and Critical Asian Studies. It inaugurates readings of queer Taiwan cultural and social texts that reconfigure as they reinvent ‘queer’ and ‘Taiwan’ vis-a-vis each o

“Situating Sexualities efficiently lays out the major debates on un-straight or non-normative eroticism preoccupying intellectuals and artists particularly in Taiwan’s queer communities. Her analytic strategies also qualify Martin to reconsider canonical

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