ABSTRACT

This article contends that the evolution from a postmodern to a transmodern paradigm explains the changes in gay and queer representation from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library to Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk. With this purpose in mind, the analysis is structured on a triple axis: the articulation of non-western bodies and sexuality; the temporal framings that convey both novels’ discourses; and the progression from neo-Freudian trauma narratives to decolonized ones. After close reading the two novels, it can be argued that Rainbow Milk contests The Swimming-Pool Library on all three concerns. The black queer body is not only vindicated, but given a voice of its own. The teleological framework, which Hollinghurst’s novel revises, does not work in Mendez’s. Finally, Rainbow Milk works through the individual and collective traumata of the protagonist and his community instead of acting out a discursive aporia.

摘要

这篇文章认为，从后现代范式到跨现代范式的演变解释了从艾伦霍林赫斯特的游泳池图书馆到保罗门德斯的彩虹牛奶的同性恋和酷儿表现的变化。考虑到这个目的，分析是在三个轴上构建的：非西方身体和性的表达；传达两部小说话语的时间框架；以及从新弗洛伊德创伤叙事到非殖民化叙事的进展。仔细阅读两部小说后，可以说彩虹牛奶与游泳池图书馆竞争关于所有三个问题。黑色酷儿的身体不仅得到了证明，而且还发出了自己的声音。霍林赫斯特小说修改的目的论框架在门德斯的小说中不起作用。最后，Rainbow Milk解决了主角及其社区的个人和集体创伤，而不是表现出一种散漫的困境。