ABSTRACT In Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood, Nora Flood sees Robin Vote by way of deflection, looking away from the beloved to better see her. This article will discuss the conditions of perception in Nightwood: how the act of seeing, as a product of knowledge (rather than a means of knowing the world), is forsaken for an alternative modality of seeing that moves away from identification and brings the less visible into view. The narrative of the sexual deviant is rearranged to resist straight reading practices. By developing a lens of negative perception, this article argues that seeing the world in perpetual negativity, at a slant, and as bent bodies in Nightwood is a queer response to the experience of being excluded from the positive, heteronormative narrative and yet still enduring and existing within it.

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一心扑向黑暗：朱娜·巴恩斯的夜木中的负面认知

摘要 在 Djuna Barnes 的 Nightwood 中，Nora Flood 通过偏转的方式看到 Robin Vote，从心爱的人身上移开以更好地看到她。本文将讨论 Nightwood 中的感知条件：作为知识的产物（而不是了解世界的手段）的观看行为如何被另一种观看方式抛弃可见。性变态的叙述被重新排列以抵制直接阅读的做法。通过发展负面感知的镜头，本文认为，在《夜木》中以永久的负面、倾斜和弯曲的身体看待世界是对被排除在积极的、异性恋的叙事之外但仍然持久和存在于其中。