“A new species” gender, sexuality, and taxonomic logics in sinophone communities
Taking as its starting point Michel Foucault’s use of the biological species metaphor in his claim that, in nineteenth-century Europe, “the homosexual was now a new species,” this article considers the sudden explosion of homoerotic activities and cultural representations in Greater China beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The article focuses in particular on four literary works dating from around 1994 that examine queer individuals in relation modern institutional structures associated with disciplines of biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism, and policing/psychiatry. At the same time, however, through attention to the role played by these institutional structures in shaping new queer subjectivities, each of these four works emphasizes the subject’s ability to intervene in the discursive formations within which those same subjectivities are positioned and thereby to narrativize the subject’s own identity.
Duke Scholars
Published In
DOI
EISSN
ISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 3506 Marketing
- 2001 Communication and Media Studies
- 1505 Marketing
- 1503 Business and Management
Citation
Published In
DOI
EISSN
ISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 3506 Marketing
- 2001 Communication and Media Studies
- 1505 Marketing
- 1503 Business and Management