The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Series Q)

出版者:Duke University Press

作者:Kathryn Bond Stockton

页数:312

出版时间:2009

价格:USD 22.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780822343868

具体描述

Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in "The Queer Child", where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of children emerge as this book illuminates the child queered by innocence, the child queered by colour, the child queered by Freud, the child queered by money, and the grown homosexual metaphorically seen as a child (or as an animal), alongside the gay child. What might the notion of a 'gay' child do to conceptions of the child? How might it outline the pain, closets, emotional labours, sexual motives, and sideways movements that attend all children, however we deny it? Engaging and challenging the work of sociologists, legal theorists, and historians, Stockton coins the term 'growing sideways' to describe ways of growing that defy the usual sense of growing 'up' in a linear trajectory toward full stature, marriage, reproduction, and the relinquishing of childish ways. Growing sideways is a mode of irregular growth involving odd lingerings, wayward paths, and fertile delays. Contending that children's queerness is rendered and explored best in fictional forms, including literature, film, and television, Stockton offers dazzling readings of works ranging from novels by Henry James, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Vladimir Nabokov to the movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Hanging Garden, Heavenly Creatures, Hoop Dreams, and the 2005 remake of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The result is a fascinating look at children's masochism, their interactions with paedophiles and animals, their unfathomable, hazy motives (leading them at times into sex, seduction, delinquency, and murder), their interracial appetites, and their love of consumption and destruction through the alluring economy of sweets.

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Edelman借精神分析把酷儿与大写的儿童形象对立起来，并将其固化为永恒的斗争，而Stockton对精神分析的征引则着眼于儿童尚未被异性恋规范驯化的酷儿性，强调growing sideways vs. growing up的时间之维。对the child queered by money的阐发尤其精彩，为酷儿视角的资本主义批判补充了一个别出心裁的切入点，与德勒兹、巴塔耶的对话也很有启发。

Edelman借精神分析把酷儿与大写的儿童形象对立起来，并将其固化为永恒的斗争，而Stockton对精神分析的征引则着眼于儿童尚未被异性恋规范驯化的酷儿性，强调growing sideways vs. growing up的时间之维。对the child queered by money的阐发尤其精彩，为酷儿视角的资本主义批判补充了一个别出心裁的切入点，与德勒兹、巴塔耶的对话也很有启发。

Edelman借精神分析把酷儿与大写的儿童形象对立起来，并将其固化为永恒的斗争，而Stockton对精神分析的征引则着眼于儿童尚未被异性恋规范驯化的酷儿性，强调growing sideways vs. growing up的时间之维。对the child queered by money的阐发尤其精彩，为酷儿视角的资本主义批判补充了一个别出心裁的切入点，与德勒兹、巴塔耶的对话也很有启发。

将the queer child作为一个学术话题提出的创新性作品。前三章的论述很精彩新颖，尤其是将狗作为metaphor以消除人类世界的generational temporality以及将motion和motive结合起来的部分。后面child queered by race那里不是很令人信服。

将the queer child作为一个学术话题提出的创新性作品。前三章的论述很精彩新颖，尤其是将狗作为metaphor以消除人类世界的generational temporality以及将motion和motive结合起来的部分。后面child queered by race那里不是很令人信服。