期刊刊名：南榮學報 　 卷期：19期

篇名出版日期：2016年5月1日

作者：張素蓁,Su-chen Chang

語言：English

關鍵字：Edmund White, A Boy's Own Story, Gender Performativity, Gender Identity, 艾德蒙．懷特,《男孩故事》,性別展演,性別認同

被點閱次數：4次

閱讀時間：67sec

摘要：
Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story, the first of his semi-autobiographical trilogy, portrays the coming-of-age of a homosexual boy and the difficult process of gender identification in his teenage. The nameless narrator of the novel, who internalizes the cultural stereotype of homosexuality, looks back at his adolescence with a deep sense of sorrow, guilt and shame. Toward the end, he resists to the social norms and learns to accept his sexual difference. Beyond the binary opposition of in/out, white/black and straight/gay that the earlier researches mainly concern, this article will focus on the fluidity of gender identity. Employing the ideas from Judith Butler’s theory of performance/performativity, this article will examine how the gender is constructed on the basis of heterosexual normativity through the repetition of stylized acts and how these stylized acts subvert the fixed gender categories in White’s A Boy’s Own Story.

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