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2024-11-08
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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.”
評分隻看瞭序,超對味的neagativity。
評分可能是年度最佳瞭。語言簡練,感情沉鬱,文風浪漫;導論、後序很對味。Love試圖建立一種酷兒政治主體marked by backwardness。她關注的問題是,高歌猛進的gay pride承諾瞭一個玫瑰色光明未來,但實際上LGBT群體的曆史始終與羞恥、喪失、孤獨等各色負麵情緒相糾纏,而這些情緒依然充斥多數成員的日常生活——倘若不能與它們妥善周鏇,那個所許諾的未來就必將虛幻且狹隘。雖然她錶示不是很關注action,後序還是提到,新的酷兒政治主體,既是在迴擊壟斷話語的主流陽光gay,也是在敦促無所作為的酷兒理論傢。
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.”
評分感覺海澀愛想錶達的核心意思就是要打破queer historiography中將現代和前現代進行二分的綫性時間觀,肯定continuity,召喚齣那些被否認的壞情感,由此來給那些見不得光的負麵性一個被看見的機會。如果迴到當代的運動脈絡中,最終的落腳點還是對normalization的批判?但如果說歐美同誌運動史有一個石牆事件這樣的曆史分水嶺,並且基於此發展齣瞭一套曆史斷代和嚮前看的運動論述,那麼中國/大陸則更像是在某種“前現代狀態”裏持續沉淪,並且以西方為地平綫、眼巴巴地“嚮前眺望”著某種未來的許諾。如果要用海澀愛的思路來挖掘中國的queer negativity,那也許就是騙婚、(過時的)同誌浴室、公園/公廁打野炮,更廣地說也離不開後殖民民族主義、社會主義革命、冷戰等問題
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