Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
J Med Humanit. 2022 Jun;43(2):319-333. doi: 10.1007/s10912-021-09678-2. Epub 2021 Feb 15.
I apply Gloria Anzaldúa's "borderlands theory" to Jamie Cortez's Sexile, an HIV/AIDS prevention publication created as a first-person narrative of the journey of queer, trans activist Adela Vasquez who fled to the US from Cuba in 1980. I argue that Sexile is a borderlands text and operationalizes Anzaldúa's mestiza consciousness at various levels- ranging from the essence of the text and what its existence represents to the literary techniques used in the telling of Adela's narrative. In the first half of this paper, I explore Anzaldúa's borderlands theory and the ethos of Sexile as a text, including Vázquez's story as inherently a borderland narrative; as a product of democratized knowledge; the praxis of the text's creation; and the technology of the graphic novel. Throughout the second half, I look more closely at the content of the text using close reading to explore notions of the "borderland" represented throughout Adela's narrative. Through both its content and the praxis of creation, Sexile represents the power of graphic medicine in illustrating the nuances of narratives at the interstices of marginalized identities and captures the multitudes and ambiguities of trauma, loss, rebirth, kinship, and joy at the margins.
我运用格洛丽亚·安扎尔杜阿的“边界地带理论”来分析杰米·科尔特斯的《性流亡》，这是一本关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防的出版物，以酷儿、跨性别活动家阿德拉·巴斯克斯的旅程为第一人称叙述，她于 1980 年从古巴逃往美国。我认为《性流亡》是一部边界地带的文本，并在多个层面上实施了安扎尔杜阿的“混血意识”——从文本的本质及其存在所代表的意义，到讲述阿德拉叙述时使用的文学技巧。在本文的前半部分，我探讨了安扎尔杜阿的边界地带理论和《性流亡》作为文本的精神，包括巴斯克斯的故事本质上是一个边界地带的叙述；作为民主化知识的产物；文本创作的实践；以及漫画小说的技术。在第二部分，我更仔细地研究了文本的内容，通过细读探索贯穿阿德拉叙述的“边界地带”概念。通过其内容和创作实践，《性流亡》代表了图形医学的力量，它说明了边缘化身份之间的细微差别，并捕捉到了创伤、失落、重生、亲情和边缘的欢乐的多样性和模糊性。
