Abstract In this short essay, we speculate on what it might mean to de-privilege a paranoid orientation in favor of a reparative one that strategically withholds suspicion “to open unexpected possibilities, ways of thinking, gestures and tones,” to use the words of Heather Love. Toward that goal, we offer a reparative reading of Ocean Vuong’s “Telemachus”, part of his award-winning collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, and suggest that it is a poem that writes back to the Western canon. However, we resist evaluating the poem as either subversive or reactionary to argue instead that the poem invites readings that pay close attention to affects oriented toward reparation, which establishes a relation to canonical texts that resists being defined by categories such as good/bad and center/margin, binaries that often undergird paranoid critique.

中文翻译：

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“溺水的忠实作品。”：Ocean Vuong 的“Telemachus”的补读

摘要 在这篇短文中，我们推测剥夺偏执倾向的特权，转而支持从战略上抑制怀疑“打开意想不到的可能性、思维方式、手势和语气”的修复倾向可能意味着什么，使用的话希瑟爱。为实现这一目标，我们提供了对 Ocean Vuong 的“Telemachus”的修复读物，这是他获奖作品集《有出口伤口的夜空》的一部分，并建议这是一首回写西方经典的诗。然而，我们拒绝将这首诗评价为颠覆性或反动性，而是认为这首诗邀请了密切关注以修复为导向的影响的阅读，这建立了与经典文本的关系，拒绝被诸如好/坏和中心等类别定义/margin，经常支持偏执批评的二进制文件。