Camp Comedy and "Submerged Trouble": Molly Keane's Queer Collaborations
Camp Comedy and "Submerged Trouble": Molly Keane's Queer Collaborations
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营地喜剧和“淹没的麻烦”：莫莉·基恩的酷儿合作
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10.1080/0013838x.2023.2258691
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发表时间：
2023
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0.3
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Murphy N
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上世纪三四十年代，英裔爱尔兰作家莫莉·基恩（Molly Keane）在伦敦西区一群男同性恋者的帮助下，与她的密友兼合著者约翰·佩里（John Perry）开始了合作剧本创作生涯。通过对《寻宝记》的比较阅读，本文认为，她独特的坎普情感是通过与酷儿创作者的合作而磨练出来的。《寻宝记》是基恩与他人合作创作的一部戏剧，后来被改编成一部独立创作的小说。合作为基恩开辟了新的性和性别可能性，并帮助她适应了衣柜作为压抑、创伤和“淹没的麻烦”框架的动态。最后，她描绘了盎格鲁-爱尔兰——一个刻意忽视周围不断变化的世界的殖民阶级——作为一种封闭的练习，作为一种对弥漫在独立的爱尔兰大房子里的“坏情绪”的营地反应。
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane embarked on a collaborative playwriting career with her close friend and co-author John Perry, facilitated by a network of gay men in London’s West End. Through a comparative reading ofTreasure Hunt, a collaboratively-written play that was adapted into a single-authored novel by Keane, this article argues that her unique camp sensibility was honed through her collaboration with queer creatives. Collaborative work opened up new sexual and gendered possibilities for Keane and helped her to become attuned to the dynamics of the closet as a framework for repression, trauma and “submerged trouble”. Ultimately, she depicts Anglo-Ireland—a colonial class studiously ignoring the changing world around them—as an exercise in closetedness, as engaging in a camp response to the “bad feelings” that pervade the Big House in independent Ireland.