Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0308
J. Axelrod
Abstract:In the aftermath of World War II, American science fiction frequently turned to the trope of the autonomous nuclear family homesteading the cosmos in their own little space ship. This particular depiction of family reflects an ideology of frontier nostalgia, but it also almost inevitably conflates fatherly patriarchal authority with the strictures of naval discipline, providing an unsettling note of authoritarian tyranny in a genre intended to reinforce ideologies of “togetherness” and the comfortable “natural” order of familial authority. Analyses of Robert Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones, TV series Lost in Space and Star Trek, Becky Chambers’s The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Disney’s Miles from Tomorrowland, and the graphic novel series Saga trace the decline of the “retrospective utopian” patriarchal family model and counterbalance it with the emergence of new, more flexible family authority structures appropriate to the twenty-first century.
摘要：第二次世界大战结束后，美国科幻小说经常转向自主核家庭在自己的小宇宙飞船上定居宇宙的比喻。这种对家庭的特殊描绘反映了一种边疆怀旧的意识形态，但它也几乎不可避免地将父亲般的父权权威与海军纪律的严格混为一谈，提供了一种专制暴政的令人不安的音符，这种风格旨在强化“团结”的意识形态和舒适的“自然”家庭权威秩序。罗伯特·海因莱因（Robert Heinlein）的《滚石》（The Rolling Stones）、电视剧《迷失在太空》（Lost in Space）和《星际迷航》（Star Trek）、贝基·钱伯斯（Becky Chambers，适合二十一世纪的更灵活的家庭权力结构。
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0335
Joseph T. Thomas
Abstract:This article uses William S. Burroughs’s novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead as a mechanism for understanding contemporary constructions of the child. Placing Burroughs’s novel in conversation with Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, the article explores how Burroughs’s conception of the child (as suggested in The Wild Boys) offers a provocatively powerful alternative to Edelman’s “Child,” the latter lashed forever to “reproductive futurity” whereas the former radically resists it and the conservative, homophobic status quo it serves to perpetuate. There’s also some stuff about actual children, living on the streets or otherwise.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0255
Edward Chamberlain
Abstract:Abstract: In this article, the author explores how the testimonios (or testimonial writing) of queer Spanish speakers across the Americas have attested to the social complexities embedded in alternative and dominant formulations of familial experiences. This project likewise considers how collections of queer testimonios from the early 2000s have the effect of decentering and reconfiguring the conventional family sphere in ways that benefit vulnerable populations. Instead of maintaining dominant familial paradigms, editors and participants involved in such collections (re)conceptualize familial experiences by breaking domestic silences around queer desires.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0182
Kaitlyn Smith
Abstract:This article argues that the Civil War hospital was the site at which the heteronormative American family was challenged by the writing and practice of queer nurses such as Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott. Like Whitman’s, Alcott’s Civil War writing establishes a process of queer family-making that has room for both sincere affection and erotic desire. In Hospital Sketches, Alcott’s heroine Tribulation rejects the patriarchal nuclear family and figures herself as a member of a functional and fulfilling queer household—she becomes a soldier, nurse, mother, sister, lover, and protector to her patients. After her identity-affirming work outside of oppressive family structures, Tribulation’s sickness and early discharge from service are described as physical and psychic war wounds, and the end of Alcott’s story depicts Tribulation as a wounded soldier in the fight for non-normative families.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0155
Kathryn Stevenson
Abstract:Amid the recent rescinding of DACA and DAPA, this article examines two competing discursive constructions of undocumented immigrants: as “families,” a move that coincides with efforts to offer more inclusive immigration reform; or as “felons,” a move that coincides with efforts to offer more exclusive immigration reforms. In examining these binary depictions of undocumented immigrant populations, this article argues that the deployment of the figure of the felon or criminal to describe immigrants casts immigration as a criminal anomaly and contributes to more punishing immigration policies, troubling kinship trends, and the criminalization of undocumented populations and Latinos more generally.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pacicoasphil.54.2.0322
S. Orr, Kealani R. Cook, Florence Johnny Frisbie, Gemma Cubero del Barrio
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