This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and res...This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and resolutions among different social hierarchies within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.Angels in America has significance not only in accordance with its position as a successful popular production,but also in terms of its contribution to extensive conversations and controversial debates on identity politics,the definition of"democratic values",and domestic social conflicts that were initiated by the then mainstream politicians.Examined through the lens of critical works by Raymond Williams,Antonio Gramsci,Walter Benjamin,and David Savran,and extending Williams’definition of culture as an ideal sense of wholeness somehow connected to a particular historical context through social meanings,personal memories,and practices native to the text,this paper shares how AIDS victims’affirmation of life in Angels stages the homosexual community’s structure of feeling in its fight for life and also for citizenship in the face of heteronormative hegemony.展开更多
African-American writers during the 19th century wrote in the shadow of the prominent romance, sentimental, and domestic fiction. Harriet Wilson＇s Our Nig （1859） reflects an ＂alternative social character＂, for th...African-American writers during the 19th century wrote in the shadow of the prominent romance, sentimental, and domestic fiction. Harriet Wilson＇s Our Nig （1859） reflects an ＂alternative social character＂, for the female protagonist suffers racism in the free North, because she is a mulatto child. Through depicting the life of free blacks, who supposedly lives a better life than Southern slaves, Wilson exposes how she has actually lived and sensed life in antebellum America. According to Raymond Williams （2011）, there are two kinds of literary writings. The first represents the general tendency of the age, and he calls it ＂dominant social character＂; representing the majority content of both the public writing and speaking. But, another different literary writing lives in its shadow; one that usually leads the conflicts of the time. It is the ＂alternative social character＂; the literature of the victims of repression and marginalization, produced by the lower class, women, and blacks. They reflected how they were dehumanized, and exposed their suffering and abasement. They also aimed to prove individualism. The novel reveals how racism in the North could be worse than the slavery of the South. This paper shows Wilson deviation from the ＂her brethren＂ in writing her novel. It unveils significant truths concerning black women＇s status in antebellum America. It discusses how the author attempts to correct certain misconceptions through her female character展开更多
文摘This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and resolutions among different social hierarchies within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.Angels in America has significance not only in accordance with its position as a successful popular production,but also in terms of its contribution to extensive conversations and controversial debates on identity politics,the definition of"democratic values",and domestic social conflicts that were initiated by the then mainstream politicians.Examined through the lens of critical works by Raymond Williams,Antonio Gramsci,Walter Benjamin,and David Savran,and extending Williams’definition of culture as an ideal sense of wholeness somehow connected to a particular historical context through social meanings,personal memories,and practices native to the text,this paper shares how AIDS victims’affirmation of life in Angels stages the homosexual community’s structure of feeling in its fight for life and also for citizenship in the face of heteronormative hegemony.
文摘African-American writers during the 19th century wrote in the shadow of the prominent romance, sentimental, and domestic fiction. Harriet Wilson＇s Our Nig （1859） reflects an ＂alternative social character＂, for the female protagonist suffers racism in the free North, because she is a mulatto child. Through depicting the life of free blacks, who supposedly lives a better life than Southern slaves, Wilson exposes how she has actually lived and sensed life in antebellum America. According to Raymond Williams （2011）, there are two kinds of literary writings. The first represents the general tendency of the age, and he calls it ＂dominant social character＂; representing the majority content of both the public writing and speaking. But, another different literary writing lives in its shadow; one that usually leads the conflicts of the time. It is the ＂alternative social character＂; the literature of the victims of repression and marginalization, produced by the lower class, women, and blacks. They reflected how they were dehumanized, and exposed their suffering and abasement. They also aimed to prove individualism. The novel reveals how racism in the North could be worse than the slavery of the South. This paper shows Wilson deviation from the ＂her brethren＂ in writing her novel. It unveils significant truths concerning black women＇s status in antebellum America. It discusses how the author attempts to correct certain misconceptions through her female character
