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This project is an attempt to demonstrate the ideological continuity between the family
and the state in terms of their joint discipline and surveillance of perverse sexualities.
Crystal Boys remains a favorable text of study, for it is rich no t only in the problematic
manifestation of familialist ideology, but also in a detailed representation of how fascistic
nationalism or the disciplining force of the state like the police plays out in and through one’s
body.
By structurally and thematically triangulating the above disciplinary network into three
kinds of agencies – i.e., the family, the state, and the perverse (non)subjects, my study seeks
to delineate the processes in which the state and the family join forces against queer
adolescents through a whole plethora of disciplinary techniques, e.g., discursive
familialization by professional or lay critics of the perversity represented in the novel,
parental verbal preaching, fascistic militarized training of bodily submission, or police
interrogation that works on a complicated entanglement of guilt and criminality. On the
other hand, the adolescent homosexual hustlers’ campy resistance to state and familial
discipline, as embodied in their grotesque parody of state and familial vocabulary or
conventions, is also a matter of importance that has been treated extensively in this project.
Situating both the disciplinary layout and the queer (non)subjects’ much-neglected,
penumbra- like identities as sex workers and adolescents in a historical and epistemic field of
sexual modernity, this project also brings into relief an erotophobic asceticism inherent in
liberal and fascist models of sexual citizenship, both of which are arguably central to
Taiwan’s mainstream definition of normative subjectivity or legal subjecthood, and to
Taiwan’s self- justification of all the disciplinary control imposed by the state and the family
over those illicit (non)subjects. Juxtaposing both this historical/philosophical outlook with
the intricate disciplinary functions specified in each chapter, this project thus provides both a
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macro-political and a micro-political overview of how sexual policing and discipline is
carried out in Taiwan’s fascist and familial regime. | en_US |