Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since.
As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuali...
Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since.
As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology and oppression. And, through their conversations, another story is told: that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served.
Blending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony and image, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure - on the ways in which stories sustain histories.
作者简介
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Justin Torres was born in 1980 and grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
From the moment I arrived, I was met with rules, a litany of regulatory proclamations. I shivered on a chair before the intake nurse, trying to grasp my change in circumstance. I kept quiet, meek, tracing the pattern of pinprick ventilation in the dingy suede of my sneakers, unable to make eye contact, to utter even a word of protest. The entire scene felt like a copy of a copy of a bad script, one I recognized from television and books. Everything, from the nurse's icy demeanor to my own timidity and dread—all of it a cliche little drama that must have played out in that very room countless times. I tried to observe the scene as if outside myself, focusing on the details, the ventilated suede, the scratch of the pen, the boredom in the nurse's voice.
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两个版本都想办法买到了（中国进口图书旗舰店已经可以购买此版本） FSG版的封面强调blackout那么这版就是在提及juan… 个人历史追寻、异质文化、宗教性，移民历史（想起戴维里夫关于迈阿密的那本书）、最重要的是酷儿性作为同性恋性欲与悲伤的复合体的形态，快感偏向的是匮乏，向性欲享乐保持敞开：快感的条件即为享乐的无限与过度。悲伤代表了一种因为匮乏而遭受的苦恼；它是责罚，惩处。快感因为又想要实现自... 两个版本都想办法买到了（中国进口图书旗舰店已经可以购买此版本） FSG版的封面强调blackout那么这版就是在提及juan… 个人历史追寻、异质文化、宗教性，移民历史（想起戴维里夫关于迈阿密的那本书）、最重要的是酷儿性作为同性恋性欲与悲伤的复合体的形态，快感偏向的是匮乏，向性欲享乐保持敞开：快感的条件即为享乐的无限与过度。悲伤代表了一种因为匮乏而遭受的苦恼；它是责罚，惩处。快感因为又想要实现自身又无法实现自身而惩罚自已。带酷儿特征的生活就是被这种复合体反复入侵。 #实验文体（最重要的） 酷儿 移民文化 (展开)