abstract:

This essay focuses on the affect of disgust to explore how Sidney Whiting’s Memoirs of a Stomach parodies the centrality of the stomach in nineteenth-century sympathetic discourse. Whiting imagines disgust as an intersubjective exchange among Mr. Stomach, the body’s other organs, and the other objects, notably foodstuffs, that he encounters. Whiting frequently appropriates the language of political inclusion and exclusion to stage the narrator’s description of what he is forced to digest. Memoirs suggests that the body’s physiological and affective processes of ingestion and expulsion mirror ongoing national processes of assimilation and exclusion that determine how political subjects are made, which subjects get to be included and who remains outside these juridical categories despite being subject to the British Crown. Disgust in Memoirs uses physiological functions to figure the contradictions at work in increasingly complex social and political processes that determine who or what belongs—who or what can be “digested.”

摘要：

本文着眼于厌恶的影响，以探讨西德尼·惠丁的《胃回忆录》在十九世纪的同情话语中如何模仿胃的中心性。惠廷（Whiting）认为，厌恶是胃先生，人体其他器官以及他遇到的其他物体（尤其是食物）之间的主体间交流。惠特经常使用政治包容和排斥的语言来登上叙述者对他被迫消化的内容的描述。回忆录这表明人体的摄取和驱逐的生理和情感过程反映了正在进行的国家同化和排斥过程，这些过程决定了政治主体的构成方式，哪些主体被包括在内，以及尽管受到英国王室的约束，但哪些人仍处于这些司法类别之外。回忆录中的厌恶利用生理功能来解决日益复杂的社会和政治过程中的矛盾，这些过程决定了谁或什么属于谁—可以“消化”谁或什么。