ABSTRACT This article examines how two works of fiction depict male same-sex desire in Australian military history. The protagonists in the novel Bodies of Men and the short story collection The Boys of Bullaroo do not identify as gay or bisexual, yet they develop intensely intimate friendships that become sexual. The texts come from different literary and popular genres, but they both represent what Elizabeth Woledge refers to as intimatopias: ‘a homosocial world in which the social closeness of the male characters engenders intimacy.’ Intimatopic fictions of war are queer texts that challenge binary and normative understandings of sexuality because the characters’ sexual identities are not defined by (homo)sexual acts. Bodies of Men and The Boys of Bullaroo are intentionally ambiguous about the protagonists’ sexualities, which are neither fixed nor fluid, but rather expressed as demisexual extensions of intimacy. The texts also challenge Australia’s digger and Anzac mythologies by presenting soldiers as sensitive, vulnerable and non-heterosexual. As such, intimatopic fictions of war reimagine Australian military history and offer new, queer conceptualizations of same-sex intimacy, mateship and desire.

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'Intimatopias 和澳大利亚战争小说的酷儿'

摘要 本文考察了两部小说如何描绘澳大利亚军事史上的男性同性欲望。小说《人体之躯》和短篇小说集《布拉鲁男孩》中的主人公并不认同自己是同性恋或双性恋，但他们建立了强烈的亲密友谊，并变成了性关系。这些文本来自不同的文学和流行体裁，但它们都代表了伊丽莎白·沃利奇所说的亲密关系：“一个同社会世界，在这个世界中，男性角色的社会亲密关系产生了亲密关系。” 战争的亲密小说是一种奇怪的文本，它挑战对性的二元性和规范性理解，因为角色的性身份不是由（同性恋）性行为定义的。男人的尸体和布拉鲁的男孩故意对主角的性取向模棱两可，它们既不是固定的也不是流动的，而是表现为亲密关系的半性延伸。这些文本还通过将士兵描述为敏感、脆弱和非异性恋来挑战澳大利亚的挖掘者和澳新军团神话。因此，战争的内幕小说重新想象了澳大利亚的军事历史，并为同性亲密、伴侣关系和欲望提供了新的、奇怪的概念化。