This article tracks the moisture that spills across Ocean Vuong’s poetry and prose. Whereas the oceanic serves as the spectacular site across which Vietnamese refugees are rescued and rehabilitated through the scripts of US humanitarianism, moisture – as an ambient material and process – coagulates a queer, minor mode of refugee mourning and melancholia in the ongoing aftermath of the War in Vietnam. Pooling together these leftover liquids – sweat, mud, blood, amniotic fluid, semen, and urine – this study considers how the literary and chemical properties of humidity can alter extant epistemic configurations of war: not as an exceptional event, but instead as an everyday surround that continues to be weathered.

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剩余的液体和哀悼的水分：Ocean Vuong 作品中的渗出物


本文追踪了 Ocean Vuong 诗歌和散文中的水分。尽管海洋是越南难民通过美国人道主义脚本获救和康复的壮观场所，但湿气——作为一种环境材料和过程——在战后持续的余波中凝固了一种奇怪的、次要的难民哀悼和忧郁模式在越南。这项研究将这些剩余的液体——汗水、泥土、血液、羊水、精液和尿液——汇集在一起​​，思考湿度的文学和化学特性如何改变现存的战争认知结构：不是作为一个特殊事件，而是作为一个日常事件。周围继续风化。