ที่มา:วิทยาสารเกษตรศาสตร์ สาขา สังคมศาสตร์

หัวเรื่อง:ไม่มีชื่อไทย (ชื่ออังกฤษ : The Meaning Construction of Queer Characters? Sexual Identity in Movie: In Case of Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

ผู้เขียน:Matana Charoenwongse

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Abstract

This content-based qualitative research aims to analyze meaning construction of queer sexual identity from a movie through the selection of signs and narrative elements and to survey factors influencing queer characters. A set of theories employed in this case study of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) includes semiology, narratology, queer theory and concepts of sexual identity. As a result, it can be noted as follows: In this movie, queer identity was created to represent four different sets of interpretations, such as a sexual discrimination in society, a sexually confused and self conflicting personality, emergence of man, human physiology, sex classification and the sexual identity of an individual originated from inner desire. All these interpretations were formulated from three signs, namely icon, index, and symbol through the film meaning structure which consists of trope, binary relation, synecdoche, metonymy, diachronic, and synchronic methods. These meanings are created from seven narrative elements: plot, theme, conflict, character, setting, symbol, and point of view. Factors affecting the sexual identity of queers were presented by two different perspectives. The first illustrated that factors were composed of sexual orientation, social control, collective identity, gender role, socialization process, and sexual characteristics while the latter featured that there was only one factor which was the mental desire.

Article Info

Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences -- formerly Kasetsart Journal (Social Sciences), Volume 029, Issue 1, Jan 08 - Apr 08, Page 26 - 41 |  PDF |  Page

ที่มา:วิทยาสารเกษตรศาสตร์ สาขา สังคมศาสตร์

หัวเรื่อง:ไม่มีชื่อไทย (ชื่ออังกฤษ : Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Identity Construction of the Transgender in Keeratee Chana?s Thang Sai Thee Sam)

ผู้เขียน:ดร.นัทธนัย ประสานนาม, รองศาสตราจารย์

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This research aims at studying identity construction of the transgender in Keeratee Chana?s Thang Sai Thee Sam (The Third Pathway). It is found that transgender identity is constructed through several devices: the narratives about social violence against the transgender and their identity development, the exploitation of medical and religious discourses to contest with mainstream discourse which stigmatizes transgenderism as a disease. Furthermore, the author exercises the politics of representation to reconstruct transgenderism through literary devices. In the novel, characterization and plotting shaped in opposition to convention of mainstream and malestream literature. The text affirms that the chosen ?third pathway? of the transgender can sharply demythologize heterosexual normativity, gender-oriented society, and patriarchal hegemony.

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Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences -- formerly Kasetsart Journal (Social Sciences), Volume 029, Issue 3, Sep 08 - Dec 08, Page 240 - 256 |  PDF |  Page