Who gets The Real in realism? Taking as case studies three women-centered cable TV shows, this essay aims to renegotiate the terms of realism along feminist lines. In their focus on the ordinary and domestic, on proximate bodies and intimate conversations, Broad City, Insecure, and Girls echo the quotidian concerns of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Beyond this, in their signature use of the bathroom, they echo late Victorian efforts to push past the accepted limits of the “real” to explore matters conventionally hidden and beneath consideration. Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Issa Rae, and Lena Dunham turn for reality effects to the “ugly” and typically unseen aspects of women’s daily lives: objects from tampons to toilets, shameful bodily functions, imperfect and vulnerable bodies, confused and embarrassing feelings. While all three shows exemplify a women-centered bathroom realism (in contrast to male-centered works for which violence is the key to a grittier realism), their particular strategies are differentiated by race. Jacobson, Glazer, and Dunham give us white women sprawled on toilets and tubs, trashing the ideal of proper ladyness. Rae’s bathroom fixture of choice is a mirror, a device she uses to explore the neglected terrain of Black female interiority.

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浴室现实主义与有线电视女性

谁得到了现实主义中的真实？本文以三个以女性为中心的有线电视节目为案例，旨在沿着女权主义的路线重新谈判现实主义的条款。《广阔城市》、《不安全感》和《女孩》在关注普通和家庭、亲密的身体和亲密的对话时，呼应了 19 世纪现实主义小说的日常关注。除此之外，在他们对浴室的标志性使用中，他们呼应了维多利亚时代晚期的努力，以超越“真实”的公认极限，探索传统上隐藏和考虑的问题。Abbi Jacobson、Ilana Glazer、Issa Rae 和 Lena Dunham 将现实效果转向女性日常生活中“丑陋”且通常不为人知的方面：从卫生棉条到马桶的物品、可耻的身体功能、不完美和脆弱的身体、困惑和尴尬的感觉。虽然所有三个节目都体现了以女性为中心的浴室现实主义（与以男性为中心的作品相比，暴力是更坚韧的现实主义的关键），但它们的特定策略因种族而异。雅各布森、格雷泽和邓纳姆给了我们躺在马桶和浴缸上的白人女性，破坏了适当淑女的理想。Rae 选择的浴室装置是一面镜子，这是她用来探索被忽视的黑人女性内在领域的设备。