本計畫將著眼於以極右派之白人優越主義與納粹思想為部分論述主題的晚近學術研究與文化文本。自二十世紀中以來，為了指認並對抗在經濟不平等中佔有一席影響之地的白人優越性，許多具有創見之語言與敘事在社會運動中掙扎著發展萌芽，然而卻因著新自由主義國家的修辭轉化策略與企業利益取向而被貶抑且削弱了力度。我將藉由精讀石黑一雄《長日將近》與奧托維婭．巴特勒《才幹的寓言》並歷史化地還諸血肉，進一步去探問文化文本如何創造出一種不可或缺的批判語言，既呈現出了右派修辭之影響力，卻亦揭露其邏輯之矛盾；以及這些文本如何匯聚了一種再現的力道，得以在政治的場域中被動員使用。在此兩年計畫中，我將論證上述文化文本如何揭露性／別實是一種人為建構，從屬於右派之種族-國族主義政治（而此右派既展現於民粹，亦展現於學術知識場域）。我乃將此二文本並置閱讀，作為對於極右與主流政治間默存卻無法被明言之連結的批判性回應。 ;This project looks at recent academic studies of the far right and cultural texts that take up white supremacism and Nazism as part of their subject matter. Some of the creative language that has been struggled for and developed in social movements since the mid-twentieth century to name white supremacy's role in economic unevenness and the fight against it has been denigrated and made less effective through the appropriative strategies of neoliberal state and corporate interests. By developing historically fleshed out close readings of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Butler's Parable of the Talents, I will explore how cultural texts create the necessary critical languages to address the effective but paradoxical logic of the right, and how they garner representational force that can be mobilized in the political sphere. In this two-year project, I will demonstrate that cultural texts accomplish this by foregrounding sexuality/gender as a synthetic part of the race/nationalist politics of the right in populist and intellectual forms. I read the two texts together as a critical commentary on the tacit, unspeakable links between the far right and mainstream politics.
