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Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2014) 58 (1 (221)): 89–107.
Published: 01 March 2014
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View articletitled, Queer Politics, Sexual Anarchism, and Nationalism: The Chinese Male Mother and the Queer Family in He Is My Wife, He Is My Mother
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Shuttling queerly across multiple temporalities, Chou Katherine Hui-ling's drama depicts a romance between You Ruilang, a self-castrated female impersonator, and Xu Jifang. The dramaturgy of gender transitivity intertwines sexual identity and nationalism, making palpable the homosexuality and homosociality that occurs between homophobia and homophilia.