Solomon Jeff
Department of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
J Lesbian Stud. 2013;17(1):7-24. doi: 10.1080/10894160.2012.683384.
Gertrude Stein was not only a fairly open lesbian but also Jewish, expatriate, and androgynous-all attributes that often retarded mass-market success. Why then was she so popular? The article offers original research highlighting how Stein was constructed as a kind of "opium queen" in the popular American press, and the ways that this decadent, bohemian celebrity persona allowed her to operate as "broadly queer" rather than "specifically gay" in the American cultural imaginary-a negotiation that accounts for the mass-market success rather than censure of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas despite the unparalleled visibility of its lesbian erotics.
格特鲁德·斯泰因不仅是一位相当公开的女同性恋者，而且是犹太人、侨民，还具有雌雄同体的特质——所有这些特质常常阻碍她在大众市场上取得成功。那么，她为何如此受欢迎呢？这篇文章提供了原创研究，突出了斯泰因在美国大众媒体中是如何被塑造为一种“鸦片女王”的，以及这种颓废、波希米亚式的名人形象如何使她在美国文化想象中以“广义上的同性恋”而非“特定的同性恋”形象出现——这种协商解释了尽管《爱丽丝·B·托克拉斯自传》中女同性恋情色描写的曝光度空前，但它仍能在大众市场上取得成功而非遭到谴责。
