书籍 Inconsequence的封面

Inconsequence

Annamarie Jagose

出版时间

2002-07-01

ISBN

9780801487989

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

The field of lesbian studies is often framed in terms of the relation between lesbianism and invisibility. Annamarie Jagose here takes a radical new approach, suggesting that the focus on invisibility and visibility is perhaps not the most productive way of looking at lesbian representability. Jagose argues that the theoretical preoccupation with metaphors of visibility is part of the problem it attempts to remedy. In her account, the regulatory difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality relies less on codes of visual recognition than on a cultural adherence to the force of first order, second order sexual sequence. As Jagose points out, sequence does not simply specify what comes before and what comes after; it also implies precedence -- what comes first and what comes second.Jagose reads canonical novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Daphne du Maurier, drawing upon their elaboration of sexual sequence. In these innovative readings, tropes such as first and second, origin and outcome, and heterosexuality and homosexuality are shown to reinforce heterosexual precedence. Inconsequence intervenes in current debates in lesbian historiography, taking as its pivotal moment the fin-de-siecle phenomenon of the sexological codification of sexual taxonomies and concluding with a reading of a post-Kinsey pulp sexological text. Throughout, Jagose reminds us that categories of sexual registration are always back-formations, secondary, and belated, not only for those who identify as lesbian but also for all sexual subjects.

用户评论
读了写Mrs. Dalloway中homosexuality与memory的那章,很有趣
脱离lesbian研究领域一直占主导地位的visibility &invisibility框架,另辟新径提出homosexuality 是heterosexuality的衍生物,居于性顺序第二位的新理论,并着重强调其理论并不具有恐同性质。理论架构的文本解读也不单依靠诸如Anne Lister的日记之类的真实历史史料,更多依托于小说的文本分析。并且文本分析角度多样,不但解析了小说叙述,也从情节,时间空间等方面解析。不得不提的是本书的阅读难度非常大,比起Judith butler 之流有过之而无不及,尤其是概论部分,需要花大量精力和时间研读和解析才能读懂句子真正含义。