A Journey of Escape: A Study of Affective Experience in Xu Tongyuan's Short Story My Teacher Is A Terrorist

一场出逃的旅行：论许通元小说 〈我的老师是恐怖分子〉中的情动体验1

Abstract

Abstract 
Xu Tongyuan (1974-), a Malaysian Chinese writer actively engaged in Malaysian 
Chinese fiction and research on homosexuality, has authored a representative Malaysian 
Chinese homosexual short story My Teacher is a Terrorist, which is included in the 
collection of short stories under the same title. This paper takes this short story as the main 
research text, appropriately supplemented by homosexual plots in other Malaysian 
Chinese short story. Taking affective experience as the research perspective, exploring the 
relationship between affective experience and the self-identity of homosexuals, as well as 
the writing strategy, from three aspects: shame and space, affective isolation and anti
shame, affective repair and identity loss, so as to study the problem of self-identity 
recognition of homosexuals in Malaysian Chinese short stories. Affective experience not 
only provides a possibility for escaping from the canon, but also provides affective care 
for the self-identity recognition of the homosexual community, and at the same time, 
provides a thinking strategy for the writing and reading of homosexuality. 

Keywords: Malaysian Chinese homosexual short story, Xu Tongyuan, My Teacher Is A Terrorist, affective experience, self-identity recognition