“这可怕的爱的行为”:乔瓦尼房间里可怕的异性恋

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MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2022.0040

Meg Wesling

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摘要:本文考察了詹姆斯·鲍德温的《乔瓦尼的房间》(1956)，并提出了一种女权主义的解读，强调鲍德温对异性恋规范的批判，认为异性恋规范是一种政治制度，其强制性权力扭曲了所有人物。男人和女人之间的关系被描绘成可怕的，所以他们似乎没有什么可以被描述为自然的。强制性的异性恋是规范的，但正如鲍德温所展示的，这远非正常。因此，鲍德温颠覆了二元对立，这种二元对立构成了关于性别认同(自然的或文化的)病因的辩论，对我们今天来说仍然很紧迫。

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"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room

Abstract:This essay examines James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (1956) and argues for a feminist reading that highlights Baldwin's critique of heteronormativity as a political system whose coercive power distorts all the characters. The relations between men and women are depicted as monstrous, so that there seems little about them that could be described as natural. Compulsory heterosexuality is normative, but as Baldwin demonstrates, it is far from normal. Baldwin thus upends the binary that structures the debate about the etiology of sexual identity (natural or cultural) in ways that remain urgent for us today.

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.