在這個現象下，我嘗試藉由「情慾書寫」的角度爬梳同志小說和酷兒小說之間的曖昧地帶，以此打破同志小說和酷兒小說對立的說法，以及為二者之間模糊不清的說法作一個釐清，期以凸顯同志和異性戀之間種種可能的聯結。 In the past two decades since the 1990s, gay novels and queer novels in Taiwan have drawn much attention of critics. It is about time to take a look at the texts of gay and queer novels which were written within these fifty years and to re-examine the recent studies in light of their concerns and their dilemmas. As a departure from the previous researches, the present study seeks to take these issues into consideration and reflect on them.
In my reading of a wide variety of the gay and the queer novels, I find that the gay novels deal with not only the homosexual love and crises in the hero’s life, but also erotic affections among the same sex and the different sex and the third sex. Likewise, the queer novels tinged with the fluid erotism abound in homosexual affections; the gay novels subsume certain elements of the queer novels, along with the homosexual love. That is to say, certain blurred space between the gay novels and the queer novels exists.
This study is an attempt to deal with the ambiguous, vague space between the gay novels and queer novels from the perspective of “erotic writing” so as to reconsider their oppositions and to clarify them. After casting some light on the ambiguity of the two, I hope to make this point clear that the links between gay and heterosexual people are evident.
