Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
发表于2024-12-31
Feeling Backward 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 憂鬱的文化政治 文化研究、哲學理論 queer 開卷八分鐘 社會學 性學 性/别 心理學
Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet.
Feeling Backward makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as "too depressing" and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present.
Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating engagement with a range of critical sources, Feeling Backward argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its effects.
只看了序,超對味的neagativity。
评分"the idea of modernity- with its suggestions of progress, rationality, and technological advance- is intimately bound up with backwardness."
评分"the idea of modernity- with its suggestions of progress, rationality, and technological advance- is intimately bound up with backwardness."
评分有点过于Euro-American了,不过对affect, identification, melancholy的interrogation还是很到位的
评分感觉海涩爱想表达的核心意思就是要打破queer historiography中将现代和前现代进行二分的线性时间观,肯定continuity,召唤出那些被否认的坏情感,由此来给那些见不得光的负面性一个被看见的机会。如果回到当代的运动脉络中,最终的落脚点还是对normalization的批判?但如果说欧美同志运动史有一个石墙事件这样的历史分水岭,并且基于此发展出了一套历史断代和向前看的运动论述,那么中国/大陆则更像是在某种“前现代状态”里持续沉沦,并且以西方为地平线、眼巴巴地“向前眺望”着某种未来的许诺。如果要用海涩爱的思路来挖掘中国的queer negativity,那也许就是骗婚、(过时的)同志浴室、公园/公厕打野炮,更广地说也离不开后殖民民族主义、社会主义革命、冷战等问题
Feeling Backward 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书