In the lives of injured US veterans of the post-9/11 wars, rehabilitation and heteronormativity are intertwined. Straight time names the ways these imperatives come together in fantasies of the heteronormative life course. This life course is central to the middle-class, white-coded American Dream, in which disability appears only at life's end. Chasing this dream brings many into the US military, but military service often imperils, rather than secures, that dream. Attention to efforts to straighten out life's temporality in the long aftermath of injury reveals a tension between a desire for a heteronormative life course and the experience of living otherwise. As these tensions surface, the cruelty of normative aspirations and their temporal frames become clear. The framework of straight time thus highlights how normative desires are complicated by sometimes-unexpected attachments to queerness and disability, even in the intensely normative cultural space of the US military. [disability, veterans, heteronormativity, temporality, United States]

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残疾、直线时间和美国梦

在 9/11 后战争中受伤的美国退伍军人的生活中，康复和异性恋是交织在一起的。直线时间命名这些命令在异性恋生命历程的幻想中结合在一起的方式。这个生命历程是中产阶级白人美国梦的核心，其中残疾只出现在生命的尽头。追逐这个梦想使许多人进入美国军队，但服兵役往往危及而不是确保这个梦想。关注在受伤后的长期生活中努力理顺生活的暂时性，揭示了对异性恋生活的渴望与以其他方式生活的体验之间的紧张关系。随着这些紧张局势的浮现，规范渴望的残酷性及其时间框架变得清晰起来。因此，直接时间的框架突出了规范性欲望如何因有时出乎意料地对酷儿和残疾的依恋而变得复杂，即使在美国军方高度规范的文化空间中。[残疾，退伍军人，异性恋，暂时性，美国]