Historicizing Queer Stories from Asia

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Two recent studies in queer cultural criticism, Lucetta Kam’s Shanghai Lalas and J. Keith Vincent’s Two-Timing Modernity, offer contrastive accounts of the formation of queer subjectivities, identities, and historical memories in East Asia. These two works treat different societies and come from disparate disciplines: whereas Kam’s qualitative ethnography employs interviews with twenty-five lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) women in Shanghai, Vincent’s contemplative account offers insight into such topics as the betweenness of the homosocial and the homoerotic, the heterodiegetic tendencies of naturalism, and the Girardian triangle of internal mediation...

참고문헌 (Reference)

1 Rofel, Lisa, "Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture" Duke University Press 2007

2 Martin, Fran, "Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary" Duke University Press 2010