ABSTRACT

In 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump described El Salvador, Haiti, and the continent of Africa as “shitholes” in a meeting about immigration. This comment, which was readily legible as racist, is situated within a larger toileting discourse that deploys what I call “shithole rhetorics” to further anti-Muslim and anti-queer anxieties. These anxieties cluster around the anatomy and infrastructure of shitholes, i.e., anuses and squat toilets. I examine shithole rhetorics in several Trumpian texts to expose the bizarre role of toileting in U.S. nationalist discourse. Additionally, I examine toileting texts from popular culture that seek to interrupt such shithole rhetorics.

摘要

2018年，美国总统唐纳德特朗普在一次关于移民的会议上将萨尔瓦多、海地和非洲大陆描述为“垃圾”。这个评论很容易被理解为种族主义者，它位于一个更大的厕所话语中，它部署了我所谓的“粪坑修辞”来进一步反穆斯林和反酷儿的焦虑。这些焦虑集中在粪坑的解剖结构和基础设施上，即肛门和蹲便器。我检查了几篇特朗普文本中的粪坑修辞，以揭露如厕在美国民族主义话语中的奇异作用。此外，我检查了流行文化中试图打断这种狗屎言论的如厕文本。