RT info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
T1 From nowhere to somewhere : spatiality in  Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool  Library and Pai Hsien-yung’s Crystal Boys
A1 He, Chuannan
K1 Homosexuality
K1 Crystal Boys
K1 The Swimming-Pool Library
K1 Homosexual  space
K1 Emotional regime
K1 Homosexualidad
K1 Espacio homosexual
K1 Régimen emocional
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB In heteropatriarchal society, homosexuality has always been considered as an unorthodox sexuality. Owing to social prohibition of that sexuality, queer groups have been marginalized and even excluded from society all the time. After Stonewall riots happened in 1969, more and more social activists are dedicated to enhance homosexual development globally. In London or Taipei, queer groups begin to walk out of the darkness and show themselves. From nowhere to somewhere, they can finally find themselves a place to fit in. In this way, a specific cultural phenomenon belonging to them is built among places. Eventually, places and gay people are connected together, and they are dependent on each other. In order to explore homosexual space, I will focus my analysis on two novels: a Chinese novel, Pai Hsien-yung’s Crystal Boys and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library. Both present the situation of gay men in 1980s. In my paper, I will make an analysis of the connection between places and gay people and the construction of mental space (emotional regime) from a comparative perspective. In two different cultures, society will direct the formation of their emotional regime and thereby influence how the connection between them is shown in both novels.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50137
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50137
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024