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Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition: The “Wrong Body” Problem, the Taboo on Translocation, and the Case of Henry James 化身规范与跨性别认知:“错误身体”问题、跨性别禁忌与亨利·詹姆斯个案
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10562835
Victoria Coulson
This article begins with critics’ hostility toward Gilbert Osmond, the notorious villain of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881). It identifies this tradition as a response to Osmond's identity as a trans woman and to the mode of embodiment that Osmond demonstrates as one possible solution to the problem of the “wrong body.” The article's first half sketches the status of the wrong body in trans studies, where the concept is disfavored as reproducing a repressive ideology, in contrast to its characterization in Lacanian psychoanalysis as psychotic. The article demonstrates, nonetheless, in the principles of Lacanian theory the postulation of a class of subjects whose psychic sexuation as men or women does not match up with the symbolic sexual identity of their physical persons: subjects who cannot, therefore, assume their physical persons as their bodies (the article terms such embodiment “co-located”). It then develops a Lacanian analysis of the solution modeled by Osmond to the wrong body problem: “translocated embodiment,” in which a subject assumes as their body a sexed form other than their physical person. The second half of the article explores the operation of translocated embodiment in the Anglo-American leisure-class community of The Portrait of a Lady. The aestheticism of Gilbert Osmond, Ralph Touchett, and Edward Rosier is read as a historically specific instance of translocated embodiment. Social disfavor of their overt translocation drives James's three connoisseurs, as transgender subjects, to attempt covert translocation via heterosexual courtship and matrimony, aiming to secure advantageous representation in the form of cisgender women.
本文从评论家对吉尔伯特·奥斯蒙德的敌意开始,他是亨利·詹姆斯的《贵妇人画像》(1881)中臭名昭著的恶棍。它将这一传统视为对奥斯蒙德作为跨性别女性身份的回应,也是对奥斯蒙德所展示的一种可能解决“错误身体”问题的体现模式的回应。文章的前半部分概述了“错误身体”在跨性别研究中的地位,这个概念不受欢迎,因为它再现了一种压抑的意识形态,与拉康精神分析中将其定性为精神病形成鲜明对比。尽管如此,在拉康理论的原则中,这篇文章证明了一类主体的假设,他们作为男人或女人的精神性行为与他们肉体的象征性性身份不匹配:因此,这些主体不能将他们的肉体作为他们的身体(这篇文章将这种体现称为“共定位”)。然后,它发展了一种拉康式的分析,以奥斯蒙德为模型来解决错误的身体问题:“移位的化身”,其中一个主体假设他们的身体是一种性别形式,而不是他们的肉体。文章的后半部分探讨了《贵妇人画像》在英美有闲阶层社会中的移位化身运作。Gilbert Osmond, Ralph Touchett和Edward Rosier的唯美主义被解读为历史上特定的移位体现的实例。社会对他们公开变性的不满驱使詹姆斯笔下的三位鉴赏家,作为变性人,试图通过异性恋求爱和婚姻来进行隐蔽的变性,目的是确保以顺性女性的形式获得有利的表现。
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“If It No Go So, It Go Near So”: Marlon James and Collective Memory 马龙·詹姆斯与《集体记忆》:《如果不是这样,就是这样
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10562799
N. T. Kortenaar
Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings fictionalizes a historical incident, the shooting of Bob Marley in Kingston in 1976, and the larger political, economic, and cultural forces that led to it and emerged from it. Real people can enter fiction and retain their names if they have already entered history or journalism—if, in other words, they are already part of a shared imagination. But there is a difference between the local Jamaican and global collective memories, a difference that determines which people keep their names and how people are remembered. People seek to enter the imagination of others, but to do so is also to risk being hollowed out and rendered imaginable, becoming a fictional character and less than a full person. But if there is only fiction, fiction also contributes to the collective memory. An awareness of the performative nature of identity and action is precisely how one can control how one is remembered and, just as important, how one eludes the imagination of others. A Brief History adds to the collective memory of readers everywhere but recognizes that Jamaicans already have their own collective memory, that they are self-conscious about what it means to come to the attention of others, and that they have always contributed to shaping the larger collective memory, including when they do not appear in it.
马龙·詹姆斯的《七次杀人简史》虚构了一个历史事件,1976年鲍勃·马利在金斯敦被枪杀,以及导致这一事件并从中产生的更大的政治、经济和文化力量。如果真实的人已经进入历史或新闻领域——换句话说,如果他们已经是共同想象的一部分,那么他们可以进入小说并保留自己的名字。但是,牙买加当地的集体记忆和全球的集体记忆之间存在差异,这种差异决定了哪些人保留自己的名字,以及人们如何被记住。人们寻求进入他人的想象,但这样做也有被掏空和被想象的风险,成为一个虚构的角色,而不是一个完整的人。但如果只有小说,小说也有助于集体记忆。意识到身份和行为的表演本质,正是一个人如何控制自己被记住的方式,同样重要的是,一个人如何逃避他人的想象。《简史》增加了各地读者的集体记忆,但也承认牙买加人已经有了自己的集体记忆,他们对引起他人注意意味着什么有自我意识,他们一直在为塑造更大的集体记忆做出贡献,包括他们没有出现在集体记忆中的时候。
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Mental Reflexes 心理反射
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10562907
Michael North
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Strange Forms 奇怪的形式
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251316
Mary L. Mullen
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The Racial Economy of Perception: Reading Black Sociality in the Nineteenth Century 感知的种族经济——解读19世纪的黑人社会
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251190
A. Moskowitz
This article investigates a central problem for literary aesthetics in the nineteenth century: why literature won't directly represent Black revolution. It argues that in Blake; or, The Huts of America, Martin Delany thinks through the structural impossibility of conceptualizing a specifically Black sociality by continually refusing to depict Black revolution at the level of the plot. Instead, Blake ties together Black labor with revolution to suggest that within the context of the system of capital in the nineteenth century, Black labor's central role in the world economy renders the social nature of Black revolution similarly imperceptible. Blake reproduces this imperceptibility and unthinkability through its structure. The book, which is famously incomplete, ends just as a violent revolution is about to erupt in Cuba. Whether the final chapters were lost or never written in the first place, this article tracks how this same anticlimactic and nonrepresentational narrative mode is repeated throughout the novel. It suggests that these conspicuous absences serve as formal literary interventions that point toward the impossibility of thinking, sensing, and thereby representing a specifically Black sociality. The article explores how Delany adopts the literary technique of withholding used in the slave narrative to actively play with the formal and generic bounds of the novel and the slave narrative alike. By adopting this familiar technique, Delany asks what role the novel has within the African American literary tradition and what role fiction can play in interrogating the limits of a mode of political thought hemmed in by a racialized political economy.
本文探讨了19世纪文学美学的一个中心问题:为什么文学不能直接表现黑人革命?它认为在布莱克;或者在《美国的小屋》中,马丁·德拉尼通过不断拒绝在情节层面上描绘黑人革命,思考了将黑人社会概念化的结构上的不可能性。相反,布莱克将黑人劳工与革命联系在一起,表明在19世纪资本制度的背景下,黑人劳工在世界经济中的核心作用使得黑人革命的社会性质同样难以察觉。布莱克通过它的结构再现了这种不可感知和不可想象。这本以不完整著称的书,在古巴即将爆发一场暴力革命时结束。不管最后几章是丢失了还是一开始就没有写,这篇文章追踪了这种虎头蛇尾和非代表性的叙事模式是如何在整部小说中重复出现的。它表明,这些明显的缺席作为正式的文学干预,指出了思考和感知的不可能性,从而代表了一个特定的黑人社会。本文探讨了德拉尼如何采用奴隶叙事中使用的含蓄的文学技巧,积极地玩弄小说和奴隶叙事的形式和一般界限。通过采用这种熟悉的技巧,德拉尼询问小说在非裔美国文学传统中扮演什么角色,以及小说在质疑被种族化的政治经济所包围的政治思想模式的局限性方面可以扮演什么角色。
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The Edges of Fiction: Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and the Birth of Novel Theory 小说的边缘:陀思妥耶夫斯基、梅列日科夫斯基与小说理论的诞生
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251226
Chloë Kitzinger
This article argues that the early twentieth-century Dostoevsky criticism of Russian Symbolist thinkers, roughly contemporaneous with Henry James's New York Edition prefaces, laid the foundation for an alternative line of novel theory, engaged not with the novel's claim to the status of high art but with the possibility of an unmediated exchange between literature and life. Interpreting Dostoevsky as a precursor to their own ideal of “life-creation,” Symbolist writers like Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Viacheslav Ivanov formulated the influential cultural construct called here the liminal Dostoevsky: Dostoevsky as a novelist who not only represents characters at the extremes of human being but also transgresses the conventional boundaries of literary texts. The liminal Dostoevsky became vital to two foundational works of novel theory, Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1916) and Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Creative Art (1929). While Lukács's later conversion to Marxism led him away from the ideal of erasing the boundary between art and life, Bakhtin pursued it throughout his writings, smuggling the logic of Symbolist life-creation into the language of modern literary theory. Now is an apt moment to revisit this genealogy. As writers and theorists of autofiction and the contemporary novel renew the dream of transcending aesthetic representation, it is crucial to historicize and interrogate our tendency to privilege the novel's capacity for dialogue with the reader over its capacity to weave immersive fictional illusions. Dostoevsky's example suggests, instead, that these two sides of novelistic creation exist in productive and perpetual tension.
本文认为,20世纪初陀思妥耶夫斯基对俄罗斯象征主义思想家的批评,大致与亨利·詹姆斯的《纽约版》序言同时进行,为小说理论的另一条路线奠定了基础,该路线不涉及小说对高级艺术地位的主张,而是涉及文学与生活之间无中介交流的可能性。德米特里·梅列日科夫斯基(Dmitry Merezhkovsky)和维亚切斯拉夫·伊万诺夫(Viacheslav Ivanov。陀思妥耶夫斯基是小说理论的两部基础性著作,即乔治·卢卡斯的《小说理论》(1916)和米哈伊尔·巴赫金的《陀思妥耶夫斯基的创造性艺术问题》(1929)。尽管卢卡奇后来转向马克思主义,使他远离了消除艺术与生活界限的理想,但巴赫金在他的整个作品中都在追求这一理想,将象征主义生活创作的逻辑渗透到现代文学理论的语言中。现在是重新审视这一谱系的恰当时机。随着作家和自动小说理论家以及当代小说重新实现超越审美表征的梦想,至关重要的是要历史化和质疑我们的倾向,即将小说与读者对话的能力置于编织沉浸式虚构幻想的能力之上。相反,陀思妥耶夫斯基的例子表明,小说创作的这两个方面存在于富有成效和永恒的张力中。
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Notes on the Novella 中篇小说札记
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251280
Morgan Day Frank
Longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, the novella appears to occupy a clear formal niche. However, novellas have posed problems for even the most basic taxonomies of literary criticism and publishing. Though the novella is defined by its length, length alone has never been sufficient to determine whether a text counts as a novella. Though the novella is a global form, shared among many national literary cultures, its transnational history is muddled by terminological inconsistency. This article sets out to understand the novella as a slippery form, one that slides through the institutional machinery that administers literary production. It centers its investigation on the United States during a period in global cultural history when the literary field was slowly coming into existence. In this environment, a group of long short stories or short novels—Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno,” and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave—revealed the incoherence of “literature” as it gradually assumed its modern form.
这部中篇小说比短篇小说长,但比小说短,似乎占据了一个明显的正式位置。然而,中篇小说甚至对文学批评和出版的最基本分类法也提出了问题。尽管中篇小说是由长度来定义的,但长度本身并不足以确定一篇文本是否算作中篇小说。尽管中篇小说是一种全球性的形式,在许多国家的文学文化中都有,但其跨国历史却被术语的不一致所混淆。本文试图将中篇小说理解为一种狡猾的形式,一种在管理文学生产的制度机制中滑动的形式。它的调查集中在全球文化史上一个文学领域慢慢形成的时期的美国。在这种环境下,纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)的《红字》(The Scarlet Letter)、赫尔曼·梅尔维尔(Herman Melville)的《贝尼托·塞雷诺》(Benito Cereno)和弗雷德里克·道格拉斯(Frederick Douglass。
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Colson Whitehead's Paranoid Styles 科尔森·怀特黑德的偏执风格
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251208
Timothy Lem-Smith
This article makes the case for a rejuvenated and multifaceted mode of paranoid reading. Eve Sedgwick famously used the term paranoid reading to signal critique's overblown, cynical, and alarmist tendencies and to provisionally create the space for a reparative alternative. Since then, the specific concept of paranoia has barely figured in the dispute over critique's usefulness, appearing only latently in, for example, Bruno Latour's “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?” when he evokes conspiracy theory as a symptom of the mainstream's oversaturation by the precepts of theory. It was thus that paranoia became once again the domain of political ideologues and their fervent supporters rather than a viable mode of literary critical engagement. Against recent postcritical dismissals of critique and other suspicious hermeneutics, the article argues that paranoia offers one of the most generative sites of potential collaboration between criticism and the novel. Circumscribing this potential, the article discovers three distinct but imbricated paranoid styles in Colson Whitehead's first novel, The Intuitionist: the racialized paranoid imperative, paranoid double consciousness, and what I tentatively call aleatory paranoia. These styles characterize a radical form of racialized paranoid thought whose diverse precepts constellate into a genuine mode of critique, not only of the structures of white supremacy but of the forms of fatalistic racial capitalist ideology that enable their persistence. The article thus serves to exemplify the expanded horizon of critical possibility enabled by a mode of reading that takes the novel as a site of the production of new ways of knowing.
这篇文章提出了一种充满活力和多方面的偏执阅读模式。Eve Sedgwick著名地使用了“偏执阅读”一词来表示批评的夸大其词、愤世嫉俗和危言耸听的倾向,并暂时为修复性的选择创造了空间。从那时起,偏执狂的具体概念几乎没有出现在关于批判有用性的争论中,只在布鲁诺·拉图尔的《为什么批判失去了动力?》中出现过,当时他将阴谋论作为主流被理论戒律过度饱和的症状。因此,偏执狂再次成为政治理论家及其狂热支持者的领域,而不是一种可行的文学批评参与模式。针对最近对批判和其他可疑解释学的后批判否定,文章认为偏执狂提供了批评和小说之间潜在合作的最具生成性的场所之一。围绕着这一潜力,文章在科尔森·怀特黑德的第一部小说《直觉主义者》中发现了三种截然不同但又相互交织的偏执风格:种族化的偏执命令、偏执的双重意识,以及我暂时称之为述职性偏执。这些风格是一种激进形式的种族化偏执思想的特征,其多样化的训诫形成了一种真正的批判模式,不仅是对白人至上主义结构的批判,而且是对宿命论种族资本主义意识形态形式的批判,这些意识形态使其得以持久。因此,这篇文章举例说明了一种阅读模式所带来的批判性可能性的扩展视野,这种阅读模式将小说作为产生新的认识方式的场所。
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The Privilege of Art 艺术的特权
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251334
Paul Stasi
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Prosthetic Grand Synthesis 假体大合成
IF 0.3 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251298
Marta Figlerowicz
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