邁向酷兒修復:陳思宏小說的情感戰術

Abstract

在同婚合法化後的臺灣語境中,酷兒敘事逐漸面臨從「婚姻權的訴求」轉向「情感政治」的思維重整,陳思宏小說於此語境中所開展的情感書寫,既露創傷歷史的持續效應,也形構另類親密關係與倫理想像的修復實踐。本文以陳思宏的「夏日三部曲」:《鬼地方》、《佛羅里達變形記》與《樓上的好人》為核心材料,分析其中所展演的「修復」如何作為一種充滿情感的行動:它不指向健全且不依循線性修復的邏輯,而是經由悲傷、痛苦、幻滅等情感狀態的層層堆疊,生成酷兒主體與群體在情感層面的生存戰術。 首先,本文從《鬼地方》切入,提出「集體酷兒修復」的概念,論述記憶如何在《鬼地方》中作為承載創傷與重組情感連結的關鍵場域;接著,延續打破「創傷→修復→和解」的和解時間性邏輯,繼而聚焦《佛羅里達變形記》,闡釋小說中的主角如何於地景流變與身體變形中展演「酷兒生存戰術」,成為在殘缺與斷裂中發展出足以棲身的倫理形式與感知位置;最後考察《樓上的好人》,進一步提出「非正典修復」的閱讀途徑,揭示小說如何通過對異性戀機制與正典價值的抵拒,發展出一種串連非正典主體且拒絕和解的生存戰術與倫理姿態。 本文論證,陳思宏的小說,並非旨在邁向一種健全的生命樣態,而是在歷史創傷、親密倫理崩解的情境中,召喚一種「集體創傷的修復」倫理。透過集體記憶的召喚、異地生存的實驗、與非正典關係的串連,小說中的主體性呈現出不指向穩定自我與情感終點的動態模式,在社群幻滅、家庭失語等多重關係中,尋求片段性的共感與鬆動性的連結。酷兒修復之於當代臺灣,既是一種對異性戀親密秩序的質疑姿態,更是一場對於「進步敘事」的感性抵抗。由此,本文希冀開拓酷兒文學研究、情感研究與當代臺灣主體的情感政治潛能。

In the context of post-legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan, queer narratives have increasingly shifted from demands for marriage rights to a reconfiguration centered on the politics of affect. Within this evolving discourse, Kevin Chen’s oeuvre unfolds a mode of affective writing that not only unveils the lingering effects of historical trauma, but constructs alternative models of intimacy and ethical imagination through practices of affective repair. This thesis focuses on Chen’s summer trilogy—Ghost Town, Florida Metamorphosis, and Die Guten Menschen von Oben—to analyze how “repair” is portrayed not as a path toward wholeness or linear healing, but as an internally conflicted and affective process. Through the accumulation of sorrow, pain and disillusionment, these texts provide tactics of affective survival for queer individuals and communities. This thesis first engages with Ghost Town, introducing the concept of “collective queer repair” to examine how memory functions as a crucial field for garnering trauma and reconfiguring affective connections. Chen’ novels then challenge the conventional linear logic of “trauma → repair → reconciliation” by turning to Florida Metamorphosis, where the protagonist performs the “queer tactics of living” through the becoming of landscapes and bodily transformations, thereby developing an ethical mode of existence. Finally, the analysis turns to Die Guten Menschen von Oben to propose a reading of “non-canonical repair,” revealing how the novel resists heteronormative mechanisms and dominant canonical values to articulate a living tactic and ethical stance grounded in the alliance of non-normative subjects and a refusal of reconciliation. This thesis argues that Kevin Chen’s novels, rather than envisioning a 'wholesome' life, articulate an ethics of 'collective trauma repair' situated within the contexts of historical trauma and the collapse of intimate ethics. Through the invocation of collective memory, experiments in displaced modes of living, and the connection with non-canonical relationships, the subjectivity portrayed in these narratives is not oriented toward a stable self or emotional resolution, but instead unfolds as a dynamic mode of being. Amid fractured communities and silenced familial ties, these queer subjects seek fragmentary moments of resonance and flexible forms of connection. In contemporary Taiwan, queer repair serves not only as a critique against heteronormative regimes of intimacy, but also as a sensuous form of resistance to dominant narratives of progress. Accordingly, this thesis endeavors to excavate the critical potential of queer literary studies, affect studies, and the emotional politics of Taiwanese subjectivity.