JOHN RECHY’S SODOMITES

IF 0.2 4区哲学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

Literature and Theology Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI:10.1093/LITTHE/FRAB002

Samuel Ernest

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Abstract

Current church debates and queer scholarship unearth Sodom as a site for contesting the relationships between sexuality, religion, queerness, and destruction. In John Rechy’s novels City of Night and Numbers, the Sodom story provides an archetype for the books’ hustler narrators, whose insatiable desires draw them repeatedly back into ‘the city of night of the soul’, and ultimately, oblivion. Drawing on Heather Love and Catherine Keller, I read Rechy as adapting the Sodom story rather than rejecting it in favour of progress or liberation, as do many queer biblical interpreters and theologians. Rechy’s hustlers display a sodomitic subjectivity in their refusal to be whole, which has made his relation to gay/queer and Chicanx literary canons uneasy. Precisely in his ‘backwardness’, Rechy illustrates how theological categories continue to shape gay/queer identities in the 20th century and today.

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约翰·雷奇的鸡奸犯

当前的教会辩论和酷儿研究发现，所多玛是一个争论性、宗教、酷儿和毁灭之间关系的地方。在约翰·雷奇的小说《夜之城》和《数字之城》中，索多玛的故事为书中骗子的叙述者提供了一个原型，他们贪得无厌的欲望一再将他们拉回“灵魂之城”，并最终被遗忘。根据希瑟·洛夫和凯瑟琳·凯勒的观点，我认为雷奇是在改编索多玛故事，而不是像许多奇怪的圣经诠释者和神学家那样，为了进步或解放而拒绝它。雷奇笔下的骗子在拒绝成为整体的过程中表现出一种鸡奸的主体性，这让他与同性恋/酷儿和墨西哥文学经典的关系变得不安。正是在他的“落后”中，雷奇说明了神学范畴如何在20世纪和今天继续塑造同性恋/酷儿身份。

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期刊介绍： Literature and Theology, a quarterly peer-review journal, provides a critical non-confessional forum for both textual analysis and theoretical speculation, encouraging explorations of how religion is embedded in culture. Contributions should address questions pertinent to both literary study and theology broadly understood, and be consistent with the Journal"s overall aim: to engage with and reshape traditional discourses within the studies of literature and religion, and their cognate fields - biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, culture studies, gender studies, artistic theory/practice, and contemporary critical theory/practice.