隨著最近BL和Slash的人氣高漲，這些次文化的文本製造已經開發了許多不同題材，
以繼續與他們特定的讀者的共鳴。在這些不停被巡迴使用的題材中，男男生子是最俱爭議性的，它往往可以煽動讀者群中的極端情緒：不是喜愛它就是厭惡它。從命名男男生子為怪物去試圖瞭解此一題材也是為了繪製它與現實的關係，跟它藏在誇張表達中身為臨界存在的關鍵地位。因此，我利用男男生子為此研究的出發點，選擇兩個來自不同文化背景的文本，即中文及英文，去試圖繪製存在兩個文本中情感結構的一個平行研究。透過細讀不同文本中男男生子的細微差別，我試圖爬梳文本的層面及讀者的文化情境中的情感結構，即有關生育的社交議題中的情感軌跡。在此方式中，文本成為社會關係中的反射，也構成了多愁善感、憤怒、偏執的感受。為了進一步探討這些能從男男生子中曖昧身體的情感所動員的政治可能性，我想指出那些情感所塑的心態可以支撐一些在政治問題上的決策，因此曖昧不明不僅是在男男生子裡的生理跨性，更在於其臨界位置產出獨特的靈活性。透過跟蹤這個生殖神話的變化，我們可以試圖去瞭解這個複雜的局面，特別是在我們這個對於沈迷於繁衍夢想的社會。

With recent raising of popularity of BL and Slash, the textual reproduction of these particular subcultures has already developed many tropes in order to continue resonating with BL or Slash readers. Among those tropes, male pregnancy is the most controversial one because it tends to incite extreme reactions in the readers: people either hate it or love it. To understand male pregnancy through naming it as the monstrosity is to map out its relationship with the reality, and the critical status as a liminal being behind its hyperbolic expression. Therefore, I use male pregnancy as the starting point to select two texts from different cultures, i.e. Chinese-speaking and
English-speaking, to draw a parallel study of the affective structure presented in the texts. By close reading into the nuance of different texts of male pregnancy, the structure of feelings on both textual level and the readers’ cultural situations demonstrates the specific emotional trajectories regarding the social issue of maternity. The texts becomes the reflections upon the social relations which constitute feelings like sentimental, angery or paranoid. To further the political possibility motivated
by the affect of such ambiguous bodies in male pregnancy, I want to point out that mentality sustained by those feelings can buttress certain decision-making in the political issues, and the ambiguity is not only in the physiology but also in their unique flexibility presented in their liminal positionality. By tracking the changes within the myth of reproduction, we can try to understand
more in this complicated situation in the societies which are obsessed over the dream of proliferation and reproduction.

Abstract………………………………………………. i
Chinese Abstract…………………………………….. ii
Acknowledgements…………………………………. iii
Introduction
Politics of Ambiguous Bodies—Troping Monstrous
Motherhood in Boy’s Love and Slash……………... 1
Chapter 1
Of Sentimental Mother and Angry Fetus—Xia Jing
Zhi Zi………………………………………………….. 22
Chapter 2
Romantic Motherhood and Its Paranoia—MOTH... 39
Conclusion
The Affect of Reproductive Male Mothers: Liminal
Monstrosity's Ways of Ambiguity…………………… 61
Works Cited………………………………………….. 64
Appendix
Xia Jing Zhi Zi Character Chart……………………. 67
MOTH Character Chart…………………………….. 68
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