From nowhere to somewhere : spatiality in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library and Pai Hsien-yung’s Crystal Boys
In heteropatriarchal society, homosexuality has always been considered as an unorthodox sexuality. Owing to social prohibition of that sexuality, queer groups have been marginalized and even excluded from society all the time. After Stonewall riots happened in 1969, more and more social activists ar...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/50137 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50137 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Homosexuality Crystal Boys The Swimming-Pool Library Homosexual space Emotional regime Homosexualidad Espacio homosexual Régimen emocional Literatura Filología Literature Philology |
| Sumario: | In heteropatriarchal society, homosexuality has always been considered as an unorthodox sexuality. Owing to social prohibition of that sexuality, queer groups have been marginalized and even excluded from society all the time. After Stonewall riots happened in 1969, more and more social activists are dedicated to enhance homosexual development globally. In London or Taipei, queer groups begin to walk out of the darkness and show themselves. From nowhere to somewhere, they can finally find themselves a place to fit in. In this way, a specific cultural phenomenon belonging to them is built among places. Eventually, places and gay people are connected together, and they are dependent on each other. In order to explore homosexual space, I will focus my analysis on two novels: a Chinese novel, Pai Hsien-yung’s Crystal Boys and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library. Both present the situation of gay men in 1980s. In my paper, I will make an analysis of the connection between places and gay people and the construction of mental space (emotional regime) from a comparative perspective. In two different cultures, society will direct the formation of their emotional regime and thereby influence how the connection between them is shown in both novels. |
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