https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/14514
標題: | 種族/性相的身體與視覺性 | 作者: | 朱偉誠 | 關鍵字: | 種族;性相;身體;視覺;美學;race;sexuality;body;visuality;aesthetics | 公開日期: | 31-七月-2004 | 出版社: | 臺北市:國立臺灣大學外國語文學系暨研究所 | 摘要: | 本研究計畫將從身體與視覺的觀點,來探 討種族與性相這兩個不論在知識生成還 是實際操作上都相綰合的文化型構,在具 體交接時產生的複雜情境與相關問題。此 處所說的「具體」交接,明確指的是:在 一方面,作為種族標記的身體,如何因為 種種緣故,產生了與性相有關的意含;而 作為性相焦點的身體,在另一方面,又如 何總是蘊含著種族的面向。這兩方面都共 同指向相關文化中,對於自我身體的理想 化意象,也就是所謂的身體美學,與現實 中的種族身體相對照的問題,於是所謂的 「劣等」種族也是因為他們不符合一種看 似客觀的「形體美」的標準;然而同時, 對於「非我族類」的種族身體的想像,卻 又始終沾染著濃厚的性別與性相意含,譬 如某些與種族有關的身體特徵(如膚色) 被認為在性方面是特別具有吸引力(或是 令人感到排拒的)。然而這些關於種族/ 性相身體的意象以及隨之衍生而來的慾 望(或是沒有慾望),都不是發生在一個 透明的「真實」環境之中,而總是透過種 種媒介,尤其是現代以來日趨重要的視覺 媒體,包括原有的雕塑繪畫與新興的攝影 電影等。因此對於上述相關問題的探討總 是必須從相關身體呈現的視覺性角度切 入;事實上,或許也正是現代性對於視覺 典範的重視,開啟了身體作為如此多方決 定的交接場域,這當然就是種族與性相綰 合所從來的文化深層機制。 This research project, exactly as its title proclaims, aims at exploring the body and visuality of race and sexuality. It is now generally agreed that the modern constructions of race and sexuality, as two discrete categories as they seem, actually share some common origins in the cultural configurations known as modernity. And one of the most significant origins shared by the two is science, along with its inbuilt visual paradigm. For not until the modern put so much emphasis on visuality had race as we know it today—as a “scientific” system of human classification based on scrupulous attention to such physical features as skin color, hair, and facial characteristics—emerged and became established as one of the most common conceptual schemes. And sexuality, ever since its modern appearance, has also been an idea very much focused on the visual aspect of body. This is why the body may act as a perfect site for a particularly em-bodied exploration of the complex but interesting issues arising at the intersections of race and sexuality. However, the critical concerns of the present project are not so grand as the above framework suggests; instead, they are very concentrated and specific. Namely, the body as both racial and sexual stands as the main focus of the project in the following two lines of exploration. First, how do the racial inscriptions of body become sexualized and assume erotic valences as either desirable or repulsive? And second, how do the sexual body contain racial implications in its linking of (sexual) desirability with (racial) superiority? These questions have as much to do with the body ideals (i.e. aesthetics) as with real bodies either on the dominant or the subordinate sides. Yet at the same time, the visual aspect of all this cannot be over-emphasized. For none of the bodies that figure in our daily activities of racial differentiation and sexual interactions exist in a transparent world of “reality”: they are always already mediated, especially through such visual media as sculpture, painting, photography and cinema (in the comprehensive sense of moving images, so including TV and video). Therefore, the issue of visuality is actually the project’s constant concern throughout its critical examination of the racial/sexual body. |
URI: | http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/10166 | 其他識別: | 922411H002039 | Rights: | 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系暨研究所 |
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