篇名 | 幻異之城‧宇宙之眼‧魍魎生體:分析數部台灣科幻小說的幻象地景與異端肉身 |
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卷期 | 35:3=411 |
並列篇名 | Fantastic Cities, the Cosmic Eye, and the Monstrous Cyborg: Analyzing Landscapes of Mirage and Transfigured Bodies in Taiwan Science Fiction |
作者 | 洪凌 |
頁次 | 049-078 |
關鍵字 | 寓言 、 劫後 、 歷史天使 、 大異己 、 酷兒 、 異質肉身 、 上帝/神怪物 、 跨性別 、 跨(變)性男 、 跨性別T 、 「動物-機體-人」(人形機體獸身) 、 allegory 、 after-holocaust 、 angel of history 、 the Big Other 、 queer 、 the other-bodied 、 God as the Thing 、 transgender 、 trans-man 、 transgender butch 、 cyborg 、 THCI |
出刊日期 | 200608 |
本論文將側重於分析數部台灣科幻小說,追究其中鋪陳的劫後幻設地景與(跨)性別書寫。滿溢奇觀的末世都會既是人形機體、異類肉身與宰制大歷史架構傾軋拉鋸的背景,也是寓言前景、森羅客體眾象的幻境,以及集體意識的慾望化身。論文首先以班雅明著作為分析素材,閱讀兩篇科幻小說(〈二三○○‧洪荒〉,〈傾城之戀〉)的歷史寓言特質。第二節探討太空歌劇〈雙星沈浮錄〉與《時間龍》所呈現的都會(宇宙)之眼,接合後拉岡精神分析論述的觀點,梳理主體掙扎其中的曖昧與兩難。在論文的第三節,以跨性別理論與「動物-機體-人」(cybernetic organism, cyborg)論述,就《不見天日的向日葵》為分析文本,重新閱讀行走於廢墟與光電幻境之上的異質肉身,對照酷兒/跨性別論證,探討台灣科幻敘事的陽剛跨性別人物的基進身體美學。
This paper analyzes several Taiwan science fiction texts, focusing on their build up of a post-holocaust, fantasmatic landscape and on the transgender writing emergent from these novels and stories. The first part deals with two classic short stories, “In the Year 2300, A Wasted Land” and “Love Until the City Comes Tumbling Down,” which hypothesize a historical negotiation contextualized by a Benjamin-esque, allegorical past, and the struggle between this symbolic network and the Lacanian Real. The second part is a re-reading of a renowned Taiwan space opera series (Dragon of Temporality, Saga of the Twin Stars), focusing on its characterization on the Big Other, embodied as a corporeal cosmic eye by which a variety of different subject-positions are empowered or enslaved. The final part is a close textual analysis of a science fantasy with cyberpunk voice, A Sunflower in Underworld. In this part, I conduct an exchange among cyborg discourse, transgender politics, theories of queer masculinity by Judith Halberstam and Jay Prosser to formulate a theorization about this text’s trans-butch characters, arguing for their transgressive bodily modification and the “monstrous” aesthetics they incarnate in a posthuman, near-future hybrid metropolitan.