Towards A Queer Sensory Writing: The Theatrical Tactics of Skin Touching (2015)
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女學學誌, 40(5), 153-196
Journal
女學學誌
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
5
Pages
153-196
Date Issued
2017-06
Date
2017-06
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Abstract
A decade after its premiere, Skin Touching, a Taiwanese lesbian play, was revived for the stage in 2015. This production, through its dramatic text, theatrical aesthetics, marketing strategies, and social critique, teased out the complex evolution of local gender issues. Working at the intersection of phenomenology, psychology, queer theory, and domestic gender analysis, this paper examines the narration and the staging of Skin Touching, which mobilizes the critical framework of queer sensory writing. The first section articulates the historical context of contemporary queer theater in Taiwan with a special focus on the original development of Skin Touching in 2004; the second section employs ?i?ek's psychoanalytic model to investigate the layered drag operations designed into the theatrical strategy of the script; the third section extends Ahmed's queer phenomenology to underscore the hyper-sensuality of stage presentation.
Subjects
酷兒(queerness)
女同志(lesbian)
踏青去(Skin Touching)
感官書寫(sensory writing)
台灣劇場(Taiwan theater)
Type
journal article
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