ABSTRACT

This article will focus on Machado’s In the Dream House and Melissa Febos’ Abandon Me to explore how nonfiction approaches the complexities of queer intimate partner abuse. Although working in non-fiction, Machado rewrites “the dream house” in over 100 different genres, with each small chapter of the book reaching for a new form to express the generally unspoken nature of the cycle of abuse she experienced. Febos chooses a collection of essays to document familial death, trauma, heritage, and an intense relationship that situates itself in an inarticulable space between passion and abusive dynamics. Both writers use genre to work toward a naming of abuse, or at least, finding ways to name, eschew, and queer what we understand by abuse and how its recognition is problematic in same-sex relationships.

摘要

本文将重点介绍 Machado 的In the Dream House和 Melissa Febos 的Abandon Me探索非虚构类作品如何处理酷儿亲密伴侣虐待的复杂性。虽然从事非小说类工作，但马查多以 100 多种不同的体裁重写了“梦想之家”，书中的每一小章都采用了一种新的形式来表达她所经历的虐待循环中通常不言而喻的本质。Febos 选择了一系列散文来记录家庭死亡、创伤、遗产和一种强烈的关系，这种关系将自己置于激情和虐待动态之间难以言喻的空间中。两位作家都使用流派来命名虐待，或者至少找到方法来命名、回避和酷儿我们对虐待的理解，以及它的识别在同性关系中的问题。