THINKING PAST PRIDE: QUEER ARAB SHAME IN BAREED MISTA3JIL
THINKING PAST PRIDE: QUEER ARAB SHAME IN BAREED MISTA3JIL
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DOI：
10.1017/s0020743813000056
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
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通讯作者：
Georgis, Dina
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作者：
Georgis, Dina
这篇文章提供了一个阅读的开创性的书Bareed Mista3jil：真实的故事，一个黎巴嫩同性恋者的叙述集合。在这里，我认为，一个新兴的集体酷儿体验正在从西方帝国主义和全球化的条件下，从殖民历史的遗产，从战后黎巴嫩的日常生活中映射出来。这篇文章抵制了将阿拉伯酷儿身份降低为西方或传统阿拉伯的冲动，认为尽管西方对性的建构肯定具有影响力，但这些身份也对当地和文化背景做出了回应。如果我们将阅读与本书中故事背后的情感联系起来，就会发现，在后殖民主义的困境中生存和谈判的情感策略与后石墙骄傲文化的策略是不同的。这个社会不是用奇怪的骄傲来压制羞耻，而是通过表达羞耻和社会羞辱的痛苦来创造自己。故事的主线不是骄傲，而是希望。这是因为，正如埃尔斯佩思·普罗宾（Elspeth Probyn）所主张的那样，羞耻感让人接触到最重要的东西，正如伊芙·塞奇威克（Eve Sedgwick）所主张的那样，羞耻感是想象变化的一种资源。
This article offers a reading of the groundbreaking book Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories, a collection of the narratives of Lebanese queers. Here, I argue, a burgeoning collective queer experience is being mapped from the conditions of Western imperialism and globalization, from the legacies of a colonial past, and from everyday life in postwar Lebanon. Resisting the urge to reduce Arab queer identities as either Western or traditionally Arab, the article suggests that though Western constructions of sexualities have certainly been influential, these identities are also responding to the local and cultural context. If we attune our readings to the affects that underlie the stories in this collection, it becomes clear that the emotional strategies to survive and negotiate the difficulties of postcoloniality are different from the strategies of post-Stonewall pride culture. Rather than stifle shame with the insistence of queer pride, this community is creating itself by expressing its suffering from the effects of shame and social humiliation. The narrative thread that comes through is not pride but hope. That is because shame, as Elspeth Probyn contends, gives access to what is most important and, as Eve Sedgwick has argued, is a resource for imagining change.