英文摘要 |
Focusing on the“sexual identity politics”and“affective alliance”of the traditional theater of yeosung gukgeuk and kua-á-hì, this paper speaks to recent work in queer theory and historiography on the potential for rethinking female same-sex intimacy. Though emerged and declined in different ways and times, yeosung gukgeuk and kua-á-hìare both mixtures of western/traditional genres with cross dressing roles that became popular in the transitional periods of political, economic, and cultural developments. These interwoven senses of“transitional nature”render them vulnerable from erasure in 1960-1990s mainstream history. Against this backdrop, this paper revisits their historical archives and ephemera of the cultural phenomenon to understand the issues of sexuality and affect in their respective forms of performance and historical periods. Through revisiting/retrieving the affective subjects and alliances, I propose an affective turn for rethinking queer intimacy against the hegemony of“compulsory lesbianism,”highlighting the insufficiency of existing national and LGBTQ narratives, and elucidating the problem of their multiple epistemologies. |