>> Another voice of an affair
Josephine Ho Central University / gender research
An affair is not a recent phenomenon. 1980s, Taiwan's affair seems to have spread to a critical point, the originally secret passions can not be known in the individual life, gradually reveal a centralized manner is seen everywhere in the hotel, silent but shocking declared a frenzy of lust; originally spread the word in the mouth between friends also began to formally addressed condensed into about an affair in the media and academic or even knowledge of the field, through an affair phenomenon of social analysis, confession or a third party of the victims the form of a novel, marriage counseling expert guidance, passion filled with moral connotations drama series and so on, to understand condemned prevention to address increasingly prominent phenomenon of having an affair.
The affair is regarded as strongly Immoral things, speak the location in Nativism field first sound, stable station moral stance or have objective authority. Including detailed description (such as Liao Hui-ying presented third party powerlessness "no return" to achieve a breakthrough and Shih walked marriage "), as well as the use of simple from the experience point of view of the plight of the suffering brought by the affair. social science methods coaching analysis on the the affair causes and the approach proposed (such as Li's "affair" Chien "an affair of the analysis and disposal").
As a newborn exposition areas affair discourse often follow the ready-made the marriage discussion of framework-based husband and wife are considered to form a legitimacy complete unit, and by the first wife and the exposition of the institution of marriage point of view, any thirdor deviants are threats and troubling marriage need to feel guilt or condemned. Affair exposition So according to this script in interactive and emotional patterns to teach (women) how to avoid preparedness, found that, in the face and deal with an affair - that is, to defend marriage.
It is interesting that the rise of the affair discussed evoke changes in interpersonal uneasy feeling, to form a mass anxiety of having an affair, but also evoke the endless curiosity, So, the Nativism productivity low, all kindsthe affair discourse by Western popular bookstores direct introduction of the translation.
This wave of translation discusses the affair might well have been just the views of liberal individualism declaration but transplanted to the local discourse atmosphere of tone, but originally led by the code of ethics and intellectual authority affair discusses challenges. Authoritative speaker position outside of the so-called the affair victim or an affair consultants, the introduction of the third party and derailed view to create a new position of the main the added production about an affair narrative, making the affair is no longer a mono statement but three sides of a three-dimensional image. Unfortunately, some works still embed those involved frankly kind of standard social scientific classification earlier cited analysis produced by the same author, "A Streetcar Named Desire (such as: unfaithful man" and "New Marriage Report) not only continue to copy the sacred status of the marriage relationship, continue to require a woman to self-control and patience to avoid or defuse beside a man's affair.
Fortunately, some other affair discourse strongly resisted this approach ignores the historical and cultural causes, and they try to provide profound theoretical description of the historical formation and cultural connotation of the affair, to avoid default personal moral value judgments. Such as extramarital affairs: pure theoretical analysis can not resist the temptation of "the outset of the 19th century Western society affair look quite detailed description of concern not only to the limits of gender and class affair in the form of box, but also noted that the nature of modern marriage tend special fraternity mode of development; Unfortunately variety of psychological analysis is referenced in other chapters of the book seems to fall into the stereotypical analysis of the plane. Another example, contains many cases, admits the affair: emotional derailment of true confession ", European pagan cultures affair romantic fantasy, as well as middle-class Puritan's rigorous life requirements, to explain the American modern marriage relationship of deep contradictions, and the contradictions in their own life in the surface. The theoretical framework affair discusses prolapse blame individual moral comment mode to display the structure of traditional social and cultural affair is in fact the basic contradiction of the show of the entire community in the institution of marriage.
At the same time, they contain a lot of personal affair frankly also strongly resisted the tendency of the past that the affair homogenization and typed. The very carefully rendering every affair Case like the secret love affair: a woman having an affair and the affair: emotional derailment true confession "(the book written by local academics
The Taiwan affair discourse has always assuming derailed by a man, which of course does not mean that women have fewer derailment, which may be because women are more careful to protect their own lust space, and therefore more difficult to study, Borrowed affair exposition in this regardvaluable information. Secret romance: a woman having an affair that countless women's story with sympathy, women are often forced to maintain a secret romance in marriage, because they are often not mature enough to enter a marriage, personal growth later setbacks still can not bear to let go of the marriage, the secret romance then become the only way out for them to be sure to maintain self. "Secret affair", although sympathetic to the woman derailed but after all, suggesting that this is "a matter of last resort." In contrast, "every woman to take a risk," the message is even more positive. Although many complex characters in this novel, but the book is on the meaning and impact of the affair in the lives of different women meticulous rendering of the lead female readers to take the time to read the insurance, and then through the heroine's feelings of apprehension, the end of high momentum regarded numerous affair discourse in several years now.
Recent affair discussed diversified, individualized and complex, and certainly a new discussion of the position, a new understanding of the independent consideration of the different subject positions affair, which preliminary dismantling the the original affair discourse seems fixed karmaPrinciples, Challenges entrainment of moral and intellectual authority of a single discourse perspective, the more active women in the derailment of discourse gradually audible safeguarding the freedom of expression of female sexuality. The affair discussed knowledge / power the battle in Yan carry.
