英文摘要 |
Contextualizing the landscape of gay-sex-drug-parties, the transformation of mode of AIDS governance, and the rise of Taiwanese gay-sex-drug popular novels, I attempt to analyze one online article and one novel which represent queer experiences and feelings about gay-sex-drug-parties, so as to explore the queer politics of alternative pleasures and transgressions. I argue that on one hand, under the present discourse of 'public health—jurisdiction—morality,' the online article is employed by 'exemplary power,' raised by Kane Race, to warn HIV positive homosexuals about drug abuse, and to deliver a message of vigilance, penitence and a good model of disciplined morality. On the other hand, the novel illustrates the ambiguity and dialectic suggested by Jacques Derrida's 'Pharmakon' to unfold a survival space for HIV positive gay drug users, and to establish a bad exemplar to stir and erode homonormativity, where a reflection on the ethnics of gay community can be cultivated. I read the novel in the lens of Sara Ahmed's 'queer grief,' who suggests that the ethics and politics of queer grief concern how the queer subjects grieve the ungrievable. By reading these grieving narratives, those not allowed to mourn can grieve queerly, and that the aura and darkness, the lost age of sex-drug-party, and those excluded stories of AIDS suffering and loss can thus be shared. |