From "Coming Out" to "Becoming": Locating, Performing, and Re-engineering the Geography of the Closet

從現身到安身－同志櫥櫃地理研究的定位、操演、與活化

郭強生(John-Sheng Kuo)

《東華人文學報》 8期 (2006/01) Pp. 213-247

https://doi.org/10.6420/DHJHS.200601.0213

摘要

本文著眼於當前同志論述中，有關地理學研究方法之採用多僅止於慾望的地圖化，因而想指出更根本迫切的問題所在：如何能藉由地理學觀念，對目前同志文化中的認同結構做出修正與新建構？其研究的主旨在於探勘潛藏於所謂同志櫥櫃地理下的操演型權力，並於此新架構中申論同志現身（出櫃）的多樣意涵。在此研究主題下，本文重新討論了相關重要理論，包括賽菊寇的櫥櫃知識論、芭特樂的性別操演、德勒茲的變向說、以及傅柯的空間地理概念，尤其是美國同志文學代表性人物艾德蒙懷特的作品與其生平更具研究價值。除了呈現同志身份與同志地景間充滿張力、弔詭、掌控、斷裂的種種面貌外，本研究更提醒經驗性、理論化兼具之櫥櫃地理重塑，對化解從現身到安身困境之重要性。

關鍵字

賽菊寇 ； 性別操演 ； 傅柯 ； 德勒茲 ； 地理學 ； 同志論述 ； 櫥櫃

並列摘要

While recent geographical approaches adopted by gay studies are focused on prescribing how desires can be situated and spatialized, this study attempts to raise a more fundamental question: how can geography help revising and reconstructing the existent identification structure in gay cultures? Its objective is to investigate the performative power underlying the geography of the closet, and then probe into the implications of coming out in this new framework. To do so, the study re-examines the theories by Sedgwick, Butler, Focault, Deleuze, as well as the life and work of American gay writer Edmund White. Gay identity and its geography are never in a harmonious relationship; on the contrary, it is full of tensions, paradoxes, manipulations and delusions. To reconcile these issues, as this research intends to suggest in the end, depends on how to re-engineer the geography of the closet.

並列關鍵字

Eve K. Sedgwick ； Judith Butler ； Michel Foucault ； Gilles Deleuze ； Performativity ； Geography ； Queer Theory ； Gay Studies ； Homosexuality ； the closet

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