Champagne J
Penn State University Erie, Behrend College, USA.
J Homosex. 1998;34(3-4):177-204. doi: 10.1300/J082v34n03_10.
How might gay and lesbian literature be read not as a mimetic representation of homosexuality, but as an activity linked to problems of subjectivity and historiography? Reading Dale Peck's novel Martin and John alongside passages from Friedrich Nietzsche's "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life" and Sigmund Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia," this essay argues for an understanding of Peck's text as an attempt to link two apparently different processes of import to contemporary gay male subjects in particular: the writing of what Nietzsche terms "critical history," and the mourning of those lost to HIV disease. It concludes by linking Martin and John to feminist critiques of identity and traditional historiography, as well as noting the connection between these two critiques.
同性恋文学如何能不被视为对同性恋的模仿性呈现，而是被视为一种与主体性和历史编纂问题相关的活动呢？通过将戴尔·佩克的小说《马丁和约翰》与弗里德里希·尼采的《历史对于人生的利弊》以及西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的《哀悼与忧郁症》中的段落放在一起阅读，本文主张将佩克的文本理解为一种尝试，尤其旨在将两个对当代男同性恋主体来说显然不同但重要的过程联系起来：尼采所说的“批判历史”的书写，以及对因艾滋病而逝去之人的哀悼。文章结尾将《马丁和约翰》与女性主义对身份认同和传统历史编纂的批判联系起来，并指出这两种批判之间的关联。
