本文以酷兒研究中的負面情感轉向為論述基礎，旨在探討負面情感的戲劇再現是否能產生對同志族群的正向觀感。討論將聚焦多部美國後愛滋戲劇中的哀傷、羞恥、恐懼和仇恨，並檢視劇作家如何透過不同的戲劇策略揭發負面情感產生的潛藏真相，討論亦強調負面情感的社會文化意涵及其與性別不平等之間的交互作用關係。本文試圖論證戲劇中呈現的負面情感可以做為反抗社會汙名，進而認同同志存在的重要動力。

全文共分為六章，包括緒論，四章主體論文及結論。 第一章介紹本文的研究目標、理論架構及章節安排。第二章著重賴瑞•克雷默在《正常心》及《我的命運》二劇中對「哀傷的階級性」的質疑，本章探討劇作家如何透過酷兒哀傷的戲劇呈現，脫鉤同志與疾病的汙名，並對同志的存在與失去，提出另類的意義與詮釋。第三章著重東尼•庫許納《美國天使》中的「羞恥的雙重性」，本章試圖論證羞恥雖可作為汙名化性別他者的工具，同時卻也能做為重建酷兒歷史的強而有力的策略。第四章探討恐懼與空間暴力，本章分析瑪麗亞•艾琳•佛妮絲《進入黑夜》中，同志如何被異性戀社會重塑成陌生人，因而成為異性戀主義者施暴的目標，同時，本章亦探究黛安娜•孫《停止親吻》中同志如何面對暴力脅迫的恐懼，並在異性戀霸權的社會中，尋求免於恐懼的歸屬空間。第五章試圖探討謝曜《瓷》與《他們的語言》二劇中，異性戀仇恨對於性別不平等及社會壓迫的關鍵影響，本章探討負面情感的戲劇呈現是否能挑戰社會汙名，從而化解種族主義者及性別歧視者的仇恨。透過分析戲劇中的負面情感，本文試圖對情感與戲劇關係研究，提出一個新的方法。

This dissertation participates in the debate about the negative affective turn in queer studies. The main inquiry is whether the representations of negative affects associated with queer experience can produce affirmative perceptions of homosexuality. In my discussion, I focus on affects such as grief, shame, fear and hate in several American post-AIDS plays. In this context, I examine how these playwrights uncover the underlying force that contributes to the production of negative affects by utilizing different theatrical strategies. Close attention will also be paid to the sociocultural meanings of these affects and their relationship with gender inequalities. This study ultimately argues that the representations of queer negative affects serve as crucial means to confront the social stigmatization and thereby to affirm the existence of homosexuality.

The dissertation is divided into six chapters, comprising Introduction, four body chapters and Conclusion. The first chapter gives a brief overview of the study, consisting of the research objectives, theoretical framework and chapter outlines. In chapter two, I focus on Larry Kramer’s interrogation of “the hierarchy of grief, ” examining how queer grief works as means to disconnect the homosexuality from illness and to negotiate the alternative meanings of AIDS losses and gay existence in The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me. In chapter three, I focus on “the doubleness of shame” in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, exploring how shame plays a social role in stigmatizing the gendered others, while at the same time serving as a powerful resource for reconstructing queer history. Chapter Four turns to fear and spatial violence. I examine how the gendered others are reshaped as sexual strangers and consequently become the targets of heterosexist violence in Maria Irene Fornes’ Enter THE NIGHT and also how the place of belonging and un-belonging is constructed and how difficult it is for those sexual strangers to claim a place of belonging in Diana Son’s Stop Kiss. In chapter five, I examine how the heterosexist hatred serves as a significant contributor to the gender inequalities that perpetuate all forms of oppression. I also discuss whether the representations of negative affect challenge the social stigmatization and thereby transcend the racist and sexist hatred in Chay Yew’s Porcelain and A Language of Their Own. By examining the negative affects embedded in various plays, this dissertation offers a new approach for mapping the relations between the theatre and queer affects.

Chapter One Introduction 1
I. Research Objectives 3
II. Theoretical Framework 7
III.Chapter Outlines 12

Chapter Two (Un)grievable Loss: Grief and Illness in Larry Kramer's
The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me 17
I. Illness and Queer Grief 23
II. Grief Works to Negotiate the Meanings of Losses:
The Normal Heart 33
III.Grief as Resistance to Normativity: The Destiny of Me 50
IV. Chapter Conclusion 64

Chatper Three Empowering the Future: Shame and History in Tony Kushner's Angels in America 67
I. Doubleness of Shame 77
II. The Return of the Shameful Past: Ghosts in Millennium Approaches 85
III.Queering American History: Angels in Perestroika 102
IV. Chapter Conclusion 114

Chapter Four Spatializing Fear: Sexual Stranger in Maria Irene Fornes' Enter THE NIGHT and Diana Son's Stop Kiss 119
I. Fear, Space and Homosexuality 128
II. Sexual Stranger: Enter THE NIGHT 136
III.Searching for a Place of Belonging: Stop Kiss 150
IV. Chapter Conclusion 166

Chapter Five A Voice of the Other: Hate and Love in Chay Yew's Porcelain and A Language of Their Own 169
I. Porcelain: An Asian Gay Murderer or Victim? 176
II. A Language of Their Own: Would Hate be Possibly Transcended? 193
III.Chapter Conclusion 206

Chapter Six Conclusion 209

Bibilography 215

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