Title:
1?? Desires and Families
Lived City (3) Love and Desire on Cities
Margins
Repetition or Progress?
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2Outline
- The Author
- The Novel General Introduction and Starting
Questions - Their Family Relations
- Questions 2 Their Locations and Positions in
Taipei - Their world as a heterotopia
- References
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- Iowa Writers Workshop
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,???????????? (source)
4??? on ??
- (1988, ????Playboy??????? ?????????,??????,?????
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??????????????????(191). - ??????????(192)
- ???????????,???????,????,???????
- ???????????,???????????,?(197)
5?? Different Versions
- the Film version -- ?? is a woman
- the TV series --
- ??s role the novel -- ????????????????????????
- the way the mother dies (the TV less sexual
deals and more attempts at making up with the
biological fathers).
6??
- The English Title--Crystal Boysmisses the
implied family relations - Plot?? (exile)???????? (dark kingdom)????(sweet
home?)?????????(journeys) - Pattern (1) leaving and returning home (e.g.
??p. 119-20???120-21)
7Recurrent Pattern Leaving and Returning Home
- ??Jewish boy, Italian boy, . . .
????????????????Going Home??????????????,????????
??,???????,????,??????????????????,????,?????,???
???????????????,???,??????---- (I 16 119-120) - ?? away from ??? away from ??s mansion.
8Bk 2 Four types of stories
- Present Homes and Overview of the whole group,
- Individuals Stories
- their encounters and efforts,
- Their past home love
- Merging of the Past and the Present
9Bk 2
- Chaps 1-2 New Park chap 3 Encounters ?????? (to
Central Park) - Chap 4 ??? chaps 5-6 the past in ??? 7 . ??
8. ?-???? ?? - Chap 9. ?? ?? and his stories 10. ?? 11. ??
talked about - 12-13. ?? ( and his past) ??? 14. Party at ??
15. ?? 16. his past - 17. ?? 18-19. ????20. ?? past and present
21-22. ?? 23 ??s home - Chap 24. ?? ??? 25-28 ???. 29 the search for
brother and mother (her past and present) 30.
back to ??? - 31. ?? at ?? (past and present)
- Chap 32. ?? group (past and present and past ??
again)arrest - 33. The police station.
10Bk 3 Home Established and Broken
- ?? past and present fathers
- ????, his home and his past
- ?? goes to???? to talk about his past
- ???s home and leaving it
- ??? broken
- ????? past and present
- The death of????
11Pattern (2) Search for Substitute Sons, Fathers
and Brothers
?????? ?? ?? ?? and the other young men????? p. 25 ?? ?? and the other young men????? p. 25
??? ??? ??????????
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?? ??? ?????????????
12Characters
- 1. ????????(negative Oedipus complex ) --
??????? - 2. ????(The Greek Model )--?? ?????????
- 3. ??????The Leonardo Model --????????????????,???
??,????????(Kaja Silverman Cf. ? ??a paper on
?????? )
13Starting Questions (1)
- ?? Whom does he love (his father, mother,
brother)? Who are his substitute fathers? Why
cant he settle down? - ?? What does he want? And ??? ??? How are
they different from each other? - Their Families Are their any similarities and
differences among their families? - How are the New Park groups characterized? And
their histories told?
14Families ??s Father
- An army officer with glorious past and awkward
present -- - Expelled from the army after being kept hostage
in a war quiet, reading ????all the time (50) - Glorious wars ? high expectations of ?? (I 5
48-49),
15Families ??s identification with his Father
- ?????????????????,????????????????,????,?????,????
???,????????????????????????,???????????????????,?
????????,???????,?????????,????,????,??????????
?????????,??????????(II 21 313)
16Families ??s love for and identification with
his Mother
- Young, beautiful, scared (51) ?? old, poor and
diseased (58-59) - Prefers ?? over ??e.g. p. 54. Why does he bite
him? - Resemblance between the mother and the son
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????,?????????????,?????,???,????????,??????????
????? (p. 61)
17Families ??s Substitute Fathers (1)
- ??? pp. 13 sociable, adjustable, rejected by
his father, - ???????????,????????,??????,????!?(362) ? to be
discussed next week
18Families ??s Substitute Brothers (2)
- Pattern pp. 37,p. 74, 121
- Big brother figures
- ??
- ???
- ?? chap 7 pp. 71
- ??? chap 24- 28
- ????,??,??????????????????,???????????????,?????
?????????,????????????????????????????????????????
?,???????,??????,????????----(chap 10, p. 88)
19?? What does he want? And ??? ???
- ?? chap 17 gets his sense of value from
stealing - ?? home chap 20 ? ??s response p. 142
 ????????????? ?????! - ?? chaps 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22
- father name cruel to ??, knows how to
survive cares about his father p. 155 - Gender chance p. 152
20New-Park Community
- 1. Hierarchy (pp. 10-12)
- ???????,????????
- ?????????????????? (p. 12)
- people of all walks of life ????,??????????,?????
??????????????????????????????????? - 2. Parties
- Carnivalesque? ????? At ??? pp. 108-109 lively
? lonely - 112-13 faces and hands
21New-Park Community Their Histories
- Parallel ???????????????(death)???????(madness)??
???? (death)(sec 32), - ?????? --???????????(??)????????????(wildness)?
- Diverse versions
- Told by ?? chap 9
- Told by the individuals themselves e.g. ?? chap 3
(lack of heart), 16 (killing himself looking for
substitutes) - Told by ??? chap 32
- ?? p. 77
- ??? p. 81
- ??, ??pp. 83 -
22New-Park Community Their Arrest/Exposure
- ??? --
- curiosity which borders on voyeurism
- self-righteousness
23Starting Questions (2)
- What are the places theyve been to?
- What is your experience of these places? How
about their experiences?
24Places
- The Rich -- ???-- ??????????? (sec 16)
???????????, - ??????????
- The poor -- ????????(chap 6)????,????????????
(chap 5)????? - Temporary Homes ??? (near ????),New Park
- Work ???????? (sec 2) ???????????????????????????
???,??????? - Funs ????????????????????????????????????,???????
???(sec 7) ??????????
25Areas
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27Heterotopia????
- Opposed to utopia a (reverse) mirror image of
society - A physical locale set apart from traditional
public life where rules and expectations are
suspended, - Two kinds the heterotopia of crisis (e.g.
bedroom of a woman in menstruation) and of
deviation (psychiatric hospital and prison,
etc.). - The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a
single real place several spaces, several sites
that are in themselves incompatible
(????????????? ???????????(heterochronies)??,????
???????????, ) - Presupposes a system of opening and closing that
both isolates them and makes them penetrable.
28HeterotopiaNew Park Community as a ????
- of deviation Homosexuality -- Opposed to
heterosexuality their loneliness and misfortune
a reverse mirror image of society - With their own rules and expectations,
- Multiple group, multiple histories
- Both isolated and penetrable with rituals of
admission but also possible ways of invasion and
exposure. - Not limited to New Park
29??? as a public sphere with different political
controls
- ?????????????????????????????,????????????,?????
?????????,?????????????,?1906?????????? - -- ????? (P. 257) ???????????????????
- -- ??? 1950 ???????????????,???????????????????
- P. 11
30Their Kingdom
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31Their Kingdom
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,??????????. . .? (chap 4)
32Their Kingdom
- ??????!????,??????????,?????,????????????????
?,?????,???????????????,??????????,??????????????,
?????,??????????????????????,????,??????,?????????
?,??,????????????? (chap 11)
33References
- ????????. ????30 (2001, July).
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