In "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City", Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light onto the idealised images and narratives about sex and citizenship that now dominate the U.S. public sphere, Berlant argues that the political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere. She asks why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts, and the ideal citizen has become one who, paradoxically, cannot yet act as a citizen - epitomised by the American child and the American foetus.As Berlant traces the guiding images of U.S. citizenship through the process of privatisation, she discusses the ideas of intimacy that have come to define national culture. From the fantasy of the American dream to the lessons of Forrest Gump, Lisa Simpson to Queer Nation, the reactionary culture of imperilled privilege to the testimony of Anita Hill, Berlant charts the landscape of American politics and culture. She examines the consequences of a shrinking and privatised concept of citizenship on increasing class, racial, sexual, and gender animosity and explores the contradictions of a conservative politics that maintains the sacredness of privacy, the virtue of the free market, and the immorality of state over-regulation - except when it comes to issues of intimacy.Drawing on literature, the law, and popular media, "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City" is a stunning and major statement about the nation and its citizens in an age of mass mediation. As it opens a critical space for new theory of agency, its narratives and gallery of images will challenge readers to rethink what it means to be American and to seek salvation in its promise.
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从纯粹的文学技法角度来看,这本书的结构处理可谓是匠心独运,它摒弃了传统小说中那种线性的时间叙事,转而采用了多重视角和碎片化的记忆闪回交织的方式。这种非线性的结构,初看时可能会让人感到有些迷失方向,仿佛置身于一个巨大的迷宫之中,需要不断地在不同的时空点之间跳跃。但是,一旦读者适应了这种叙事逻辑,就会发现它带来的巨大优势——它极大地拓宽了事件的理解维度。通过不同人物的眼睛去看待同一个高潮时刻,那些隐藏在表面之下的动机和误解便层层叠叠地浮现出来。这种手法成功地避免了“全知视角”可能带来的枯燥和预设性,让读者真正成为了一个主动的侦探,去拼凑出事件的全貌。尤其是在处理那些具有争议性或模棱两可的事件时,作者高明地保持了一种审慎的距离感,她提供了所有的碎片,却把最终的“真相”的定义权,留给了每一个翻开书页的读者。这是一种非常现代且充满挑战性的叙事姿态。
评分这本书最引人注目的地方,在于它对“象征意义”的运用达到了出神入化的地步。它远不止于记录一个故事,它更像是在构建一个宏大的、多层次的寓言。许多场景、物件,甚至是一个不经意的眼神,都仿佛被赋予了某种超越其字面意义的重量。作者的文字充满了隐喻和双关,使得每一章节的结尾都像是一个等待被解开的谜题,迫使你停下来,反复咀嚼那些看似寻常的陈述。例如,对某种特定的天气现象的反复提及,不仅仅是天气描写,更像是对某种不可避免的命运的预示。这种文学上的“密度”非常高,意味着你无法快速浏览,每一个逗号和句号都可能承载着关键的信息。对于热衷于文学分析和深层解读的读者来说,这本书无疑是一座宝藏,它提供了一次又一次深入挖掘和阐释的机会。它不是那种让你读完后就合上的书,而是会让你在合上书页很久之后,依然在脑海中构建逻辑树,试图理清那些隐藏在优雅表象之下的、更为深邃的社会结构批判。
评分我必须坦诚,这本书中人物的塑造,带给我一种强烈的“距离感”。他们是光彩夺目的,拥有着令人艳羡的地位和资源,但同时,他们也显得异常的疏离和冷漠。作者似乎对“温暖”这种情感抱持着一种警惕甚至是不屑的态度。角色之间的互动,充满了试探、算计和利益交换,很少有真正发自内心的、无私的联结。这使得阅读体验变成了一种对权力游戏的近距离观察,而非对人性的深度共情。我欣赏作者敢于描绘这种“上流社会”的真实面貌——那种建立在脆弱契约之上的联盟,随时可能因一个更优渥的提议而分崩离析。然而,对于渴望在阅读中找到一丝慰藉或人性光辉的读者来说,这本书可能会显得过于刻薄和功利。它像一面精心打磨过的镜子,反射出的是精心包装下的脆弱和焦虑,而不是灵魂深处的火花。我读完后,脑中充斥的是策略和博弈,而不是感动的泪水。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直像一辆脱缰的野马,让人应接不暇,却又欲罢不能。作者似乎对捕捉时代脉搏有着一种近乎本能的天赋,笔下的场景转换之快,常常让人感觉自己正坐在一列高速行驶的蒸汽火车上,窗外的风景以一种令人眩晕的速度后退。这种跳跃性的叙事,虽然在某些需要沉淀情感的时刻显得有些仓促,却极大地增强了故事的戏剧张力。尤其是当角色们被卷入那些高层权力斗争的漩涡时,那种快节奏的对话和瞬间的决定,仿佛直接击中了读者的神经末梢。我特别欣赏作者在描绘那些复杂人际网络时所展现出的那种冷峻的洞察力,她总能在最不经意的地方,埋下一枚关于人性弱点或抱负的伏笔,等到读者完全沉浸其中时,才猛然引爆。整本书读下来,就像经历了一场精彩绝伦的舞台剧,灯光、布景、演员的走位都拿捏得恰到好处,尽管偶尔会觉得喘不过气来,但正是这种张力,让它区别于那些平铺直叙的作品。它强迫你跟上它的步伐,去适应那种高强度的信息输入和情绪波动,读完之后,那种意犹未尽的感觉,远胜于那些温吞水般的阅读体验。
评分这是一部充满着令人惊叹的细节描摹的作品,作者对那个特定历史时期物质生活的刻画达到了近乎偏执的程度。你可以清晰地“闻到”那些昂贵香水的气味,感受到丝绸在指尖滑过的触感,甚至能想象出壁炉中木柴燃烧时发出的那种噼啪声响。这种对环境的精雕细琢,使得故事的背景不仅仅是一个冰冷的舞台,而是一个有血有肉、呼吸着的实体。然而,这种细致入微也带来了一些挑战,有时,过于冗长的物件清单或者对某件服饰的历史渊源的深度挖掘,会让人感觉叙事的主线稍稍偏离了航道。但这或许正是作者的用意所在,她似乎想通过这些繁复的外部装饰,来反衬出人物内心世界的空虚与挣扎。我尤其对她如何将家具的陈设与人物的心理状态联系起来的技巧感到着迷,那种“景语即情语”的运用,含蓄而有力,让那些没有直接对白的情节,也充满了丰富的解读空间。总的来说,这是一本需要慢慢品味的“阅读奢饰品”,不适合心浮气躁的读者。
评分The citizenship of the U.S. present tense is conceived “as a condition of social membership produced by personal acts and values, especially acts originating in or directed toward the family sphere.”
评分The citizenship of the U.S. present tense is conceived “as a condition of social membership produced by personal acts and values, especially acts originating in or directed toward the family sphere.”
评分The nationalizing of discipline of infant/sexual/maternal/female citizenship representation and civic ethics
评分The nationalizing of discipline of infant/sexual/maternal/female citizenship representation and civic ethics
评分The citizenship of the U.S. present tense is conceived “as a condition of social membership produced by personal acts and values, especially acts originating in or directed toward the family sphere.”
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