Richards G
Department of English, University of New Orleans, LA 70148-2315, USA. gnreg.uno.edu
J Homosex. 1998;34(3-4):67-86. doi: 10.1300/J082v34n03_05.
After rehearsing persisting representations of same-sex desire in the Southern Renaissance's literary production, this essay charts how novels by Truman Capote and William Goyen reveal contradictory genderings of male homosexuality. Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms collapses male gay identity with effeminacy, while Goyen's The House of Breath replicates this model but also contrasts it with a coexisting and competing one in which masculine men can physically act upon gay desire. Thus, contrary to the theorizations of Michel Foucault and David Halperin, these representations suggest the absence of a unified model of mid-twentieth-century male homosexuality.
在梳理了南方文艺复兴文学作品中对同性欲望的持续呈现之后，本文探究了杜鲁门·卡波特和威廉·戈扬的小说如何揭示了男性同性恋矛盾的性别塑造。卡波特的《别的声音，别的房间》将男性同性恋身份与柔弱气质等同起来，而戈扬的《呼吸之屋》则复制了这一模式，但同时也将其与另一种并存且相互竞争的模式进行了对比，在这种模式中，阳刚男性可以将同性恋欲望付诸实际行动。因此，与米歇尔·福柯和大卫·哈珀林的理论不同，这些呈现表明二十世纪中叶不存在统一的男性同性恋模式。
