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?? Desires and Families
Lived City (3) Love and Desire on Cities
Margins

• in a citys heterotopia

Repetition or Progress?
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Outline

• The Author
• The Novel General Introduction and Starting
  Questions
• Their Family Relations
• Questions 2 Their Locations and Positions in
  Taipei
• Their world as a heterotopia
• References

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• ????????????????????,??????????????????????????
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• ?????????1960?????????????????????
• Iowa Writers Workshop
• ?????????????????????,???????,????????
  
• ?????????????????,??????????????,????????????????
  ,???????????? (source)

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??? on ??

• (1988, ????Playboy??????? ?????????,??????,?????
  ???????????????????,????????????)
  ??????????????????(191).
• ??????????(192)
• ???????????,???????,????,???????
• ???????????,???????????,?(197)

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?? Different Versions

• the Film version -- ?? is a woman
• the TV series --
• ??s role the novel -- ????????????????????????
  
• the way the mother dies (the TV less sexual
  deals and more attempts at making up with the
  biological fathers).

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• The English Title--Crystal Boysmisses the
  implied family relations
• Plot?? (exile)???????? (dark kingdom)????(sweet
  home?)?????????(journeys)
• Pattern (1) leaving and returning home (e.g.
  ??p. 119-20???120-21)

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Recurrent Pattern Leaving and Returning Home

• ??Jewish boy, Italian boy, . . .
  ????????????????Going Home??????????????,????????
  ??,???????,????,??????????????????,????,?????,???
  ???????????????,???,??????---- (I 16 119-120)
• ?? away from ??? away from ??s mansion.

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Bk 2 Four types of stories

• Present Homes and Overview of the whole group,
• Individuals Stories
• their encounters and efforts,
• Their past home love
• Merging of the Past and the Present

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Bk 2

• Chaps 1-2 New Park chap 3 Encounters ?????? (to
  Central Park)
• Chap 4 ??? chaps 5-6 the past in ??? 7 . ??
  8. ?-???? ??
• Chap 9. ?? ?? and his stories 10. ?? 11. ??
  talked about
• 12-13. ?? ( and his past) ??? 14. Party at ??
  15. ?? 16. his past
• 17. ?? 18-19. ????20. ?? past and present
  21-22. ?? 23 ??s home
• Chap 24. ?? ??? 25-28 ???. 29 the search for
  brother and mother (her past and present) 30.
  back to ???
• 31. ?? at ?? (past and present)
• Chap 32. ?? group (past and present and past ??
  again)arrest
• 33. The police station.

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Bk 3 Home Established and Broken

• ?? past and present fathers
• ????, his home and his past
• ?? goes to???? to talk about his past
• ???s home and leaving it
• ??? broken
• ????? past and present
• The death of????

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Pattern (2) Search for Substitute Sons, Fathers
and Brothers
?????? ?? ?? ?? and the other young men????? p. 25 ?? ?? and the other young men????? p. 25
??? ??? ??????????
?? ??????
?? ??? ?????????????
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Characters

• 1. ????????(negative Oedipus complex ) --
  ???????
• 2. ????(The Greek Model )--?? ?????????
• 3. ??????The Leonardo Model --????????????????,???
  ??,????????(Kaja Silverman Cf. ? ??a paper on
  ?????? )

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Starting Questions (1)

• ?? Whom does he love (his father, mother,
  brother)? Who are his substitute fathers? Why
  cant he settle down?
• ?? What does he want? And ??? ??? How are
  they different from each other?
• Their Families Are their any similarities and
  differences among their families?
• How are the New Park groups characterized? And
  their histories told?

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Families ??s Father

• An army officer with glorious past and awkward
  present --
• Expelled from the army after being kept hostage
  in a war quiet, reading ????all the time (50)
• Glorious wars ? high expectations of ?? (I 5
  48-49),

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Families ??s identification with his Father

• ?????????????????,????????????????,????,?????,????
  ???,????????????????????????,???????????????????,?
  ????????,???????,?????????,????,????,??????????
  ?????????,??????????(II 21 313)

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Families ??s love for and identification with
his Mother

• Young, beautiful, scared (51) ?? old, poor and
  diseased (58-59)
• Prefers ?? over ??e.g. p. 54. Why does he bite
  him?
• Resemblance between the mother and the son
  ????????????????,????????????????????,????????,???
  ????,?????????????,?????,???,????????,??????????
  ????? (p. 61)

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Families ??s Substitute Fathers (1)

• ??? pp. 13 sociable, adjustable, rejected by
  his father,
• ???????????,????????,??????,????!?(362) ? to be
  discussed next week

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Families ??s Substitute Brothers (2)

• Pattern pp. 37,p. 74, 121
• Big brother figures
• ??
• ???
• ?? chap 7 pp. 71
• ??? chap 24- 28
• ????,??,??????????????????,???????????????,?????
  ?????????,????????????????????????????????????????
  ?,???????,??????,????????----(chap 10, p. 88)

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?? What does he want? And ??? ???

• ?? chap 17 gets his sense of value from
  stealing
• ?? home chap 20 ? ??s response p. 142
   ????????????? ?????!
• ?? chaps 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22
• father name cruel to ??, knows how to
  survive cares about his father p. 155
• Gender chance p. 152

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New-Park Community

• 1. Hierarchy (pp. 10-12)
• ???????,????????
• ?????????????????? (p. 12)
• people of all walks of life ????,??????????,?????
  ???????????????????????????????????
• 2. Parties
• Carnivalesque? ????? At ??? pp. 108-109 lively
  ? lonely
• 112-13 faces and hands

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New-Park Community Their Histories

• Parallel ???????????????(death)???????(madness)??
  ???? (death)(sec 32),
• ?????? --???????????(??)????????????(wildness)?
• Diverse versions
• Told by ?? chap 9
• Told by the individuals themselves e.g. ?? chap 3
  (lack of heart), 16 (killing himself looking for
  substitutes)
• Told by ??? chap 32
• ?? p. 77
• ??? p. 81
• ??, ??pp. 83 -

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New-Park Community Their Arrest/Exposure

• ??? --
• curiosity which borders on voyeurism
• self-righteousness

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Starting Questions (2)

• What are the places theyve been to?
• What is your experience of these places? How
  about their experiences?

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Places

• The Rich -- ???-- ??????????? (sec 16)
  ???????????,
• ??????????
• The poor -- ????????(chap 6)????,????????????
  (chap 5)?????
• Temporary Homes ??? (near ????),New Park
• Work ???????? (sec 2) ???????????????????????????
  ???,???????
• Funs ????????????????????????????????????,???????
  ???(sec 7) ??????????

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Areas
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Heterotopia????

1. Opposed to utopia a (reverse) mirror image of
   society
2. A physical locale set apart from traditional
   public life where rules and expectations are
   suspended,
3. Two kinds the heterotopia of crisis (e.g.
   bedroom of a woman in menstruation) and of
   deviation (psychiatric hospital and prison,
   etc.).
4. The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a
   single real place several spaces, several sites
   that are in themselves incompatible
   (????????????? ???????????(heterochronies)??,????
   ???????????, )
5. Presupposes a system of opening and closing that
   both isolates them and makes them penetrable.

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HeterotopiaNew Park Community as a ????

1. of deviation Homosexuality -- Opposed to
   heterosexuality their loneliness and misfortune
   a reverse mirror image of society
2. With their own rules and expectations,
3. Multiple group, multiple histories
4. Both isolated and penetrable with rituals of
   admission but also possible ways of invasion and
   exposure.
5. Not limited to New Park

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??? as a public sphere with different political
controls

• ?????????????????????????????,????????????,?????
  ?????????,?????????????,?1906??????????
• -- ????? (P. 257) ???????????????????
• -- ??? 1950 ???????????????,???????????????????
• P. 11

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Their Kingdom
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????,????,????,????,????????????????????????????
???,???,???,??????,????????,????????,????????????,
?????????????????,???????????????????????,???
????,??????????????????????,????????,?????,. .
.??????????,????,????????????????!????????????!?
?????????!(p. 10)
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Their Kingdom

• . . . ??????????????,?????????????????????????,??
  ?,???,?????????,???????????????,?????,??????,?????
  ?????????????????,??????????????????????????,???
  ????,????????,????????????,???????,??,?????,??????
  ,??????????. . .? (chap 4)

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Their Kingdom

• ??????!????,??????????,?????,????????????????
  ?,?????,???????????????,??????????,??????????????,
  ?????,??????????????????????,????,??????,?????????
  ?,??,????????????? (chap 11)

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References

• ????????. ????30 (2001, July).
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• ???. lt?????????gt(???????)
• ???. lt??????????????????????gt
  ????????1991-1997???,??????(1998).
• Heterotopia http//www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Cri
  ticism/postmodernism/postmo_urban/foucault-heterot
  opia.html