Abstract:

Why are the private lives of lesbian poets read for their universality rather than celebrated for their difference? A universal reading of the private movements of lesbianism from the sexual to contemplating conception, reinforces the social othering of lesbianism as a deviance, a moral flaw in character. Universalist readings interrupt anti-normative poetic responses. Criticism surrounding Mary Dorcey's poetry, particularly in the 1990s, is an example of this partiality to universalize the lesbian experience. A key to undoing universalizing readings of lesbian poets like Dorcey and to undoing false universalism generally is to establish an emphasis on queer futurity and a refusal of heteronormative futurity. Dorcey's heteronormative universal future is made in the early 1990s at the price of her past, her body, and her lesbianism being erased. Dorcey's poetry displays the possibility of alternative queer futures that require a different way of being, thinking, and writing.

摘要：

为什么阅读女同性恋诗人的私生活是因为他们的普遍性，而不是因为他们的不同而受到赞誉？对女同性恋的私人运动从性到沉思的概念的普遍解读，强化了女同性恋的社会异化作为一种​​偏差，一种性格上的道德缺陷。普遍主义的阅读打断了反规范的诗意反应。围绕玛丽·多西诗歌的批评，特别是在 1990 年代，就是这种偏袒女同性恋体验普遍化的例子。消除像多西这样的女同性恋诗人的普遍化阅读和普遍消除虚假普遍主义的关键是建立对酷儿未来的强调和对异性恋未来的拒绝。多西的异性恋普遍未来是在 1990 年代初期以她的过去、她的身体、和她的女同性恋被抹去。多西的诗歌展示了另类酷儿未来的可能性，这种未来需要不同的存在方式、思维方式和写作方式。