ABSTRACT

Drawing from D.A. Miller's work on The novel and the police (1988) in Victorian fiction, this paper looks at narrative strategies through which the same-sex underworld is portrayed, policed and contained in contemporary Vietnamese fiction. The pioneering works of the prolific policeman-author Bùi Anh Tấn have spearheaded a strong connection between sex and crime in his representations of homosexuality. These potentially subversive representations take place within a liminal underworld, often depicted as an alternative space constitutive of personal identity characterized by same-sex desire outside of recognition by legal authorities or public morality. A critical exploration of the police presence and function within the narrative can uncover the underlying techniques and technologies of surveillance and discipline whereby depictions of the same-sex underworld are policed by and therefore complicit in an operational regime of pervasive hetero-normativity. By examining the thematics of criminality, sexual/social outcast, self-renunciation/acceptance, and cultural ambiguity in the sizable LGBT-themed oeuvre of Bùi Anh Tấn over the past two decades, this paper explores how this body of works partakes in the construction and containment of a transgressive yet marginalized homosexual underworld. Marked by the police presence and subjected to the policing function of the texts, this same-sex underworld is transformed into an object of increasing attention and fascination for an ever so curious yet still ambivalent Vietnamese society.

摘要

摘自DA Miller关于小说和警察的作品（1988）在维多利亚时代的小说中，本文着眼于叙事策略，通过这些策略，当代越南小说中对同性的黑社会进行了描绘，管制和遏制。多产的警察作家布·安·安·图恩（BùiAnh T inn）的开创性作品以同性恋为代表，引领了性与犯罪之间的紧密联系。这些潜在的颠覆性表达发生在一个边缘的地下世界中，通常被描述为一种个人身份的替代性空间构成，其特征是在法律权威或公共道德的认可之外，具有同性欲望。对警察在叙事中的存在和功能的批判性探索可以揭示出监视和纪律的基本技术和技术，从而对同性黑社会的描述由普遍的异规范性运作机制来管理，因此是复杂的。在过去的二十年中，通过考察以大同志为主题的BBT主题活动中的犯罪，性/社会流浪，自我舍弃/接受和文化歧义的主题，本文探索了这部分作品如何参与建筑并遏制了侵略性但边缘化的同性恋黑社会。以警察的身分为标记，并受文本的警务作用，