ABSTRACT

This essay argues that New Narrative exemplifies queer experimental literature's innovation of interpretative protocols and affective relations that break from those sanctioned within the heteronormative public sphere. In particular, New Narrative gives narrative form to “sexual disorientation,” or the ways that queers and other sexual dissidents suffer violence and social marginalization. As touchstones for this aesthetic politics, the essay looks to Robert Glück's short story “Sanchez and Day” (1982) and Kathy Acker's novel Great Expectations (1982), which compose “affect plots” that reimagine the relations between affect, queerness, and form. Taken together, their approaches to queer relationality offer a method for tracing uptakes of New Narrative's affective forms as they move promiscuously beyond their emergence in the early 1980s.

摘要

本文认为，新叙事体现了酷儿实验文学对解释协议和情感关系的创新，这些协议和情感关系打破了异性恋公共领域的认可。特别是，新叙事为“性迷失方向”或酷儿和其他性异议人士遭受暴力和社会边缘化的方式赋予了叙事形式。作为这种审美政治的试金石，这篇文章着眼于罗伯特·格吕克的短篇小说“桑切斯和戴”（1982 年）和凯西·阿克的小说《远大前程》（1982 年），它们组成了“情感情节”，重新构想了情感、酷儿和形式之间的关系. 总之，他们处理酷儿关系的方法提供了一种追踪新叙事吸收的方法。