“敢于真实,在剩下的时间里闪闪发光”:弗雷德里克·埃克伦德Q中的跨性别老龄化想象

IF 0.9 Q3 WOMENS STUDIES
L. Sandberg, Sam Holmqvist
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摘要本文通过对瑞典作家弗雷德里克·埃克伦德的小说《Q》的分析,探讨了跨性别衰老的想象,更具体地说,是跨性别衰老未来的愿景。这部小说告诉了弗雷德里克的故事,他在60岁时以异装癖的身份出现,随后努力接受并探索他们作为玛丽索尔的变性身份。总的来说,女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者和酷儿衰老的文化表现很少见,而且经常讲述悲惨的故事。因此,Q是一个关于变性人衰老的复杂而相对积极的叙事的独特例子。一方面,变性人的衰老被描绘成一种潜在的逃离时间和变老的方式,一种“重生”的形式。另一方面,失败是一种持续的威胁,包括未能表现出与年龄相适应的女性气质,以及陷入自我厌恶和羞耻感的失败。主人公成功衰老的斗争与自豪感和为自己挺身而出紧密相连,这些斗争反过来又与斯堪的纳维亚进步主义和LGBT例外主义的谐音话语联系在一起。
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“Daring to Be True and to Shine Brightly in the Time That Remains”: Imagining Transgender Ageing in Fredrik Ekelund’s Q
ABSTRACT This article explores imaginings of transgender ageing, and more specifically visions of transfeminine ageing futures, through an analysis of the auto-fictional novel Q by Swedish author Fredrik Ekelund. The novel tells the story of Fredrik, who comes out as transvestite at the age of 60, and subsequently struggles to come to terms with and explore their transfeminine identity as Marisol. Overall, cultural representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ageing are rare, and often tell tales of misery. As such, Q is a unique example of a complex and relatively positive narrative of transgender ageing. On the one hand, transgender ageing is portrayed as a potential escape from both time and growing old, a form of “rebirth”. On the other hand, failure emerges as a constant threat, including both the failure to perform age-appropriate femininity and failure in the sense of becoming stuck with self-loathing and shame. The protagonist’s struggles to age successfully become intimately connected with pride and standing up for oneself, struggles that are in turn bound to homonationalist discourses of Scandinavian progressiveness and LGBT exceptionalism.
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