其它性身體：東方白〈尾巴〉的變形技術

Countersexual Bodies: Techniques of Transformation in Dongfang Bai's ''Tails''

本文主張「其它性身體」（countersexual bodies）作為分析概念，重新解讀戰後台灣重要作家東方白（林文德，1938-）的短篇小說〈尾巴〉，以批判文本所再現的二元性別制度（gender binarism）與強制異性戀機制（compulsory heterosexuality）。本文借鏡當代跨性別理論對身體變形、性別焦慮與醫學治理等啟發，指出〈尾巴〉中敘事者經歷的身體改造，不僅反映順從規訓的過程，更揭示性別認同如何在醫學技術介入與社會規範中被生產與標記。不同於將身體視為國族寓言的隱喻，本文重視文本內外的身體技術、語言權力與醫療論述。本文強調賀爾蒙作為身體治理技術的最小單位，如何滲透並建構單一性別身體的可辨識性。藉由「其它性身體」的視角，本文並非強加小說敘事者以當代跨性別的認同框架，而是揭露身體技術、社會規範與二元性別制度之間的權力矛盾。本文期望拓展台灣文學中性別研究的方法論視野，也彰顯早期文學對身體規訓與異性戀制度的潛在批判。

This article introduces“countersexual bodies”as a critical framework for reinterpreting“Tails,”a short story by the influential postwar Taiwanese writer Dongfang Bai (Lin Wen-de, 1938-). Engaging with contemporary transgender theory, especially concepts of bodily transformation, gender dysphoria, and medical governance, this study interrogates how the narrative negotiates gender binarism and compulsory heterosexuality. The protagonist’s bodily modifications are not simply processes of disciplinary conformity; rather, they reveal the ways in which gender identity is actively produced, regulated, and inscribed through the interplay of medical technologies and social norms. Moving beyond readings that treat the body as a metaphor for national allegory, this analysis foregrounds bodily techniques, discursive power, and the pervasive influence of medical discourse both within and beyond the text. Particular attention is paid to hormones as fundamental technologies of bodily governance that construct and sustain the intelligibility of gendered bodies. Importantly, the concept of“countersexual bodies”is not imposed as a contemporary transgender identity category but is instead mobilized to illuminate the contradictions and tensions between bodily technologies, social regulation, and the binary gender system. By adopting this perspective, the article aims to broaden methodological approaches to gender in Taiwanese literary studies and to highlight the latent critique of bodily discipline and compulsory heterosexuality embedded in early Taiwanese fiction.