Abstract

Focusing on two of Jane Rule’s novels, The Young in One Another’s Arms and Memory Board, this essay treats them as a resource for rethinking the relationship between queerness, kinship, and domesticity. Rather than a fully agential idea of queer kinship—the familiar model of “families we choose”—Rule grounds her model of kinship in shared domestic experience, and in slow and mutual adaptation. Her vision of kinship is profoundly relational, and never homonormative; it is also grounded in the lived experience of disability. For Rule, adaptation is both an interpersonal process and a material one: her novels take place in houses that are adapted to accommodate physical and intellectual disabilities, non-monogamous romantic relationships, communal child-rearing, transient populations, and other unconventional communities of care. Adaptive kinship is a way of opposing state rule, the ideology of genetic lineage, and the hegemony of the couple form. Rule’s groups of people, which usually include characters queered by race, disability, citizenship, and other forms of difference in addition to sexuality, become families not because they share a legal or genetic tie or because they have chosen each other, but because they have shared and shaped a domestic space.

摘要

专注于 Jane Rule 的两部小说，《彼此怀抱中的年轻人》和《记忆板》，本文将它们视为重新思考酷儿、亲属和家庭之间关系的资源。而不是酷儿亲属关系的完全代理观念——熟悉的“我们选择的家庭”模型——规则将她的亲属关系模型建立在共享的家庭经验以及缓慢和相互适应的基础上。她对亲属关系的看法是深刻的关系，从不同义。它还以残疾的生活经历为基础。对于 Rule 来说，适应既是一个人际过程，也是一个物质过程：她的小说发生在适应身体和智力残疾、非一夫一妻制的浪漫关系、公共育儿、流动人口和其他非传统护理社区的房屋中. 适应性亲属关系是反对国家统治，遗传谱系意识形态，以及夫妻形式的霸权。Rule 的人群，通常包括因种族、残疾、公民身份和其他形式的差异而异的性格，而不是因为他们有法律或基因上的联系，或者因为他们选择了对方，而是因为他们有共享和塑造了一个家庭空间。