當代愛滋社群政略之悖論：《叛徒馬密可能的回憶錄》之戲劇批判戰術 = Paradox of Contemporary AIDS Community Politics The Theatrical Critique and Tactics in The Possible Memoirs of a Traitor
Journal
中外文學 = CHUNG WAI LITERARY QUARTERLY
Journal Volume
48
Journal Issue
3
Pages
133
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Abstract
The social violence and discrimination caused by the stigmatization of AIDS as metaphor of deviation still pervade nowadays, rendering the related issues of AIDS at stake. Instead of describing the syndrome of illness, Four Chair Theater's The Possible Memoirs of a Traitor (2017) focuses on dynamical process in which AIDS/HIV has been materialized within the apparatuses of cultural imagination and medical operation. Staged with the metastructure of documentary shooting, the play underscores the ambivalent attributes- aggregation and collapse-of contemporary AIDS community, which point to the paradox of the AIDS identification that this paper aims to discuss. This paper first articulates the context of the AIDS identification by investigating the histories of AIDS theater and performance around the globe and then moves on to delineate the interior operation, the exterior apparatus, and the possible impasse of the AIDS theater in Taiwan. This paper then probes into the narrative conflict and historiographic queer temporality presented in The Possible Memoirs of a Traitor in order to propose possible activist tactics for contemporary minorities and further point out a necessary politics of justice that takes into account the intervulnerable relationship between the AIDS community politics and the dynamic scenarios of society.
Subjects
Taiwan; queer; AIDS community; contemporary theater; theatrical paradox; The Possible Memoirs of a Traitor
Publisher
NATL TAIWAN UNIV PRESS
Type
journal article