Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
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.
發表於2024-12-22
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圖書標籤: 憂鬱的文化政治 文化研究、哲學理論 queer 開捲八分鐘 社會學 性學 性/彆 心理學
“”As long as homophobia continues to centrally structure queer life, We cannot afford to turn away from the past; instead, we have to risk the turn backward, even if it means opening ourselves to social and psychic realities we would rather forget.”
評分Anti-homonormativity. 是與之産生情感共鳴的一本書。當今的性少數平權是朝嚮未來的一場運動,當下的我們也疾呼著同誌的驕傲與陽光,殊不知打造一個個符閤主流想象的陽光gay的同時恰恰失去瞭平權運動最重要的一部分-通往驕傲的陽光大道是由無數與黑暗情緒(羞恥、沮喪、挫敗、失去)糾纏的砂礫鋪就而成,也與汙名的猛虎無數次的斡鏇纔成就瞭最無可取代的生命經驗。反思後石牆運動的同性戀主流規範,反對綫性的進步式話語,不斷撿拾迴過去的消極情感,那些不見於陽光下的、貧窮的、疾病的甚至是病態的人們。黑暗纔是最美麗的。
評分“”As long as homophobia continues to centrally structure queer life, We cannot afford to turn away from the past; instead, we have to risk the turn backward, even if it means opening ourselves to social and psychic realities we would rather forget.”
評分Anti-homonormativity. 是與之産生情感共鳴的一本書。當今的性少數平權是朝嚮未來的一場運動,當下的我們也疾呼著同誌的驕傲與陽光,殊不知打造一個個符閤主流想象的陽光gay的同時恰恰失去瞭平權運動最重要的一部分-通往驕傲的陽光大道是由無數與黑暗情緒(羞恥、沮喪、挫敗、失去)糾纏的砂礫鋪就而成,也與汙名的猛虎無數次的斡鏇纔成就瞭最無可取代的生命經驗。反思後石牆運動的同性戀主流規範,反對綫性的進步式話語,不斷撿拾迴過去的消極情感,那些不見於陽光下的、貧窮的、疾病的甚至是病態的人們。黑暗纔是最美麗的。
評分有點過於Euro-American瞭,不過對affect, identification, melancholy的interrogation還是很到位的
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