“致我的兄弟”：西娅·阿斯特利小说和故事中的同性恋爱情与性

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Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.1017/qre.2019.32

Cheryl Taylor

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摘要

摘要早在1960年的《流言的诅咒》（A Descant for Gossips）中，男同性恋和同性恋爱情就出现在西娅·阿斯特利的散文作品中。这些人物和这个话题引起的反应随着观点的变化和不同主题的影响而变化。无论是传统的天主教性教义，还是澳大利亚推迟将同性恋行为合法化，阿斯特利的待遇都无法得到遏制。出于对同性恋哥哥菲利普的爱，阿斯特利在《雨影的多重影响》（1996年）中对同性恋爱情的最后暗示与他因癌症去世的哥哥菲利普一致，她在这方面和其他话题上唯一不变的信息是，人类有责任善待彼此。这篇文章借鉴了凯伦·兰姆的传记，以及菲利普·阿斯特利的家人和其他耶稣会士的著作和回忆，揭示了他的重要性，因为他的妹妹试图通过小说解决天主教对纯洁的崇拜与她自己来之不易的对男同性恋的理解和接受之间的冲突。

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‘To my brother’: Gay love and sex in Thea Astley’s novels and stories

Abstract Beginning as early as A Descant for Gossips (1960), gay men and gay love come and go in Thea Astley’s prose oeuvre. The responses that these characters and this topic invite shift with point of view and under the impact of varied themes. Astley’s treatment refuses to be contained, either by traditional Catholic doctrines about sex or by Australia’s delay in decriminalising homosexual acts. Driven by love for her gay older brother Philip, whose death from cancer corresponded with her final allusions to gay love in The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996), Astley’s only constant message on this, as on other topics, is humans’ responsibility to treat each other with kindness. This essay draws on Karen Lamb’s biography and on writings and reminiscences by Philip Astley’s family and fellow Jesuits to reveal his significance as his sister sought to resolve through her fiction the conflict between an inculcated Catholic idolisation of purity and her own hard-won understanding and acceptance of gay men.

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期刊介绍： Published in association with Griffith University Queensland Review is a multi-disciplinary journal of Australian Studies which focuses on the history, literature, culture, society, politics and environment of the state of Queensland. Queensland’s relations with Asia, the Pacific islands and Papua New Guinea are a particular focus of the journal, as are comparative studies with other regions. In addition to scholarly articles, Queensland Review publishes commentaries, interviews, and book reviews.