酷儿时代错误:杰弗里·布雷斯和种族化的共和国

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Arizona Quarterly Pub Date : 2019-03-08 DOI:10.1353/ARQ.2019.0001

Ben Bascom

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摘要：本文考察了杰弗里·布雷斯（1742-1827）的回忆录，他是一位黑人独立战争老兵和获得解放的奴隶，在1780年代传教后不久就定居在佛蒙特州。以布雷斯的回忆录《失明的非洲奴隶》（The Blind African Slave）或《博伊雷劳·布林奇回忆录》（Boyrereau Brinch，昵称杰弗里·布雷斯，1810）为中心，这是一部由白人律师转录的反奴隶制叙事书，我想这本书的文本是在与美国早期意识形态形成的核心思想对话。在佛蒙特州期间，Brace试图以共和党公民的身份生活，但他遇到了非常具体的障碍：他的孩子被迫成为契约劳役，他的妻子在砍伐树木获取枫糖时遭受暴力。Brace阐述了一种共和党归属的模式，这种模式在修辞和物质上展示了他的自由。Brace的文本为重新构建19世纪非裔美国人生活叙事的性别含义提供了可能的替代方案。

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Queer Anachronism: Jeffrey Brace and the Racialized Republic

Abstract:This essay examines the memoir of Jeffrey Brace (1742–1827), a black Revolutionary War veteran and emancipated slave who settled in Vermont soon after his manumission in the 1780s. Focusing on Brace’s memoir The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace (1810)—an anti-slavery narrative transcribed by a white lawyer—I imagine the text being in conversation with ideas central to the ideological formation of the early United States. While in Vermont, Brace tried to live as a republican citizen, but he experienced very specific barriers: his children were forced into indentured servitude and his wife subjected to violence while tapping trees for maple sugar. Brace articulates a model of republican belonging that rhetorically and materially stages his freedom. Brace’s text offers possible alternatives to reframing the gendered implications of nineteenth-century African American life narratives.

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期刊介绍： Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.