MisfitBoba - 标记
藍宇 豆瓣
8.0 (62 个评分) 作者: 北京同志 東販出版社 2002 - 1
北京,在這個中國古老的都城,充滿濃厚政治與保守氛圍之中,隱隱流動著人們內心深處的愛慾情懷。一個活躍於政界的高幹子弟,夜晚縱情慾海,在遇上藍宇之後更是耽溺於那年輕結實的男體。藍宇對他的愛,明白清楚,他卻只享愛性愛……
2022年5月22日 想读
吉尔伽美什 豆瓣
Gilgamesh
作者: [德] 延斯·哈德 译者: 素言 后浪丨湖南美术出版公司 2021 - 5
根据历史上初次记载的英雄史诗改编
王者之争,刺杀雪松林恶兽,与天牛的激斗
因惧怕死亡而追寻永生,
死亡大海彼岸的长生灵药能否将半神之躯重塑为真正的神?
乌鲁克之王与其友人的冒险,以生死为代价领略世间真理
巧用独特壁画画风,完美还原早期人类文学的瑰宝
带你轻松解读远古神话史诗
◎ 编辑推荐
☆《万物》作者大胆挑战,改编自世界上初次被记载的古老英雄史诗《吉尔伽美什》
书中内容改编自英雄史诗《吉尔伽美什》,原作被记录于石板上,主要讲述人神混血的乌鲁克之王吉尔伽美什与友人恩奇都的冒险故事。《吉尔伽美什》作为世界上初次被记载的英雄史诗,对后世影响深远,《尼伯龙根之歌》《赫拉克洛斯》都受其影响而成,《吉尔伽美什史诗》被后世评价为世界三大史诗之一。
☆ 数次排版尝试,精心绘制的分镜与独特的壁画风
离开了绘画舒适圈的延斯·哈德,开始了对全新风格的挑战,巧用壁画风将史诗内容还原出来。这次改变对他而言并不简单,在两年的准备时间里,他将《万物》中用于绘制古代人的的特殊画风延续下来,加以改进,并为配合画风绘制了大量分镜,让画面符合自己的期望。这种特殊的画风对作者的分镜技术是一个极大的挑战,延斯·哈德依据自己对史诗的理解,摒弃了传统的分镜法则,经历无数草稿插图的失败绘制,最终突破了限制,完成了这部作品。
☆ 揣摩合适词句,耗时16个月的用心创作
《吉尔伽美什史诗》作为世界上初次被记载的英雄史诗,拥有多个译本,且各具特色。有的还原了史诗的叙述方式,艰涩难懂;有的将字句全部转化为现代用语,使读者对角色与事件有割裂感。作为漫画改编作品,作者在创作期翻阅了市面上能找到的数个版本的《吉尔伽美什史诗》译本,延斯·哈德在选择译本时与翻译过《吉尔伽美什史诗》的奥地利作家拉乌尔多次讨论,力求在保留史诗古旧感的同时令文字更加易懂。经过长时间的翻译挑选,甚至通过口译版本的录音筛选,选定了现在使用的译本,优化了艰涩难懂的部分译文,以图像小说的形式将整部史诗呈现给大家。
☆ 跨越生死的友谊,对生命的重新认知
书中的主角吉尔伽美什本是目中无人的暴君,在遇到知己恩奇都后终于认识到了自己行为的不妥,开始行善。吉尔伽美什在朋友的纠正下走上了正确的道路,他明白了拥有志同道合的朋友是人生中的幸事,却也因为与朋友的感情深厚,吉尔伽美什在恩奇都死后切身体会到来自“死亡”的威胁,终日惴惴不安。书中后半段吉尔伽美什不远万里追求长生不死,却以失败而告终,这也向读者传达了人生中残酷的真相:人从出生起就在走向死亡,没有人能摆脱命运的归宿。
◎ 内容简介
本书内容完全取材并考据于《吉尔伽美什史诗》,这部英雄史诗主要讲述乌鲁克国王吉尔伽美什一生中的四个重要故事:恩齐都被神创造成万能的神物,暴君吉尔伽美什与一生中的挚友恩齐都相遇,成为了贤明的君主;两人一起讨伐森林中的怪物洪巴巴,为民除害,吸引了女神伊斯塔的注意;恩齐都因为吉尔伽美什羞辱女神伊斯塔,被神诅咒而死,吉尔伽美什为复活朋友踏上寻求永生的旅途,但在拿到返老还童的药草后被蛇趁虚而入失去了重返年轻的机会;恩齐都获准重新与吉尔伽美什相见,并为他讲述在死后世界的见闻。书中将他们的故事转变为漫画形式,尊重并还原了史诗中吉尔伽美什与恩齐都的人物形象,对于吉尔伽美什史诗原作有兴趣的读者可以从本书入手,轻松解读史诗。
2022年5月22日 想读
沉睡的人 豆瓣
Un homme qui dort
8.5 (22 个评分) 作者: [法] 乔治·佩雷克 译者: 李玉民 人民文学出版社 2019 - 1
他是最独特的文学家之一,和任何人都没有丝毫相似之处。——卡尔维诺
“你二十五岁,有二十九颗牙、三件衬衣、八只袜子、几本你不再看的书、几张你不再听的唱片。你并不想回忆别的事,无论你的家庭、你的学业、你的爱情、你的朋友、你的假期,还是你的规划。你旅行过,没有从几次旅行中带回任何东西。你就干坐着,你只想等待,仅仅等待,一直等到再也没有什么可等的了:等到夜晚来临,打了钟点,一天天逝去,而记忆也渐渐淡漠了。”
《沉睡的人》出版于1967年,是乔治·佩雷克的第三部小说。作者使用第二人称,直接与主人公对话,用诗意的语言讲述了一个大学生把自己封闭起来,逐渐沉浸在麻木和无谓之中,最终彻底遁世的经过。
2022年5月22日 想读
被束缚的人 豆瓣
Der Gefesselte
8.9 (11 个评分) 作者: [奥] 伊尔泽·艾辛格尔 译者: 胡蔚 / 人民文学出版社 2017 - 2
短篇小说集《被束缚的人》(1953)是艾兴格尔早期创作的高峰。收录了1948年至1952年的十二篇作品。
2022年5月22日 想读
雷蒙·阿隆回忆录 豆瓣
Mémoires (édition intégrale inédite)
9.0 (5 个评分) 作者: [法国] 雷蒙·阿隆 译者: 杨祖功 / 王甦 社会科学文献出版社 2017 - 7
全书分为五个部分:政治教育、政治愿望、祸患之中的教师、当官的年代和死缓阶段。一方面,阿隆追述了20世纪法国发生的重大历史事件,细致地描绘了各种行为人的面貌。他把自身生活以及公共生活的周边环境都写了进去,而内心波动和事件起伏只是稍有触及。另一方面,他把自己的全部著述都收 集和归纳到书中,每篇著作的核心内容,他用几页提要加以说明。阿隆还补充了对其评论的各种反应,收入了他曾收到的赞同或反对他的信件,以及他自己写的回顾性评论。从某种程度上讲,《雷蒙•阿隆回忆录》归纳了他的整个人生和全部著述。
2022年5月22日 想读
裂隙之外 豆瓣
Beyond the Aquila Rift
8.7 (7 个评分) 作者: [英] 阿拉斯泰尔·雷诺兹 译者: 孙薇 / 何锐 2022 - 3
火爆全球的现象级神剧《爱,死亡和机器人》第一季第7集原著小说,英国科幻作家阿拉斯泰尔·雷诺兹回顾25年生涯的科幻经典选集《裂隙之外》重磅来袭。前欧洲航天局专家为你拉开银河序幕,15篇科幻故事,篇篇美到窒息!脑洞大到爆!
雷诺兹在这些科幻故事里集中探讨以外星文明、星际文明、人工智能为主角的,有关爱恨情仇、人类本性等主题的故事,通过独特的方法创作出于以往科幻作品中弱肉强食、遵循黑森林法则的野蛮异族迥然不同的星际文明形态。其间蕴含的哲学思维发人深省,奇异的世界观、颠覆性的悬疑情节、如梦如画的场景构建,烧脑又余韵深长,奇幻又扑朔迷离,堪称佳作。
如果可以,你选择沉溺于虚拟的幻梦,
还是清醒地直面裂隙之外的诡怪现实?
外星生物是否具有人的情感?
外星文明与人类文明的关系究竟如何?
最好的科幻是基于宇宙尺度的面向生命与文明的发问。
生命,即使是跨越了几十万年的生命,也只是两片无垠的黑暗之间的一线光明。
文明,静候在星辰之间;荣耀与湮灭,在刀锋两侧共舞。
★火爆全球的现象级神剧《爱,死亡和机器人》第一季第7集原著小说;
★前欧洲航天局专家、太空歌剧大师阿拉斯泰尔·雷诺兹,创作25年以来包揽英国科幻协会奖、轨迹奖、日本星云赏、侧面奖等国际大奖,多次入围雨果奖、阿瑟·C. 克拉克奖、约翰·W. 坎贝尔奖、菲利普·K. 迪克纪念奖、西奥多·斯特金纪念奖!
★《冰与火之歌》作者乔治·马丁盛赞雷诺兹作品:“新颖而令人兴奋,充满酷炫的概念。令人读之欲罢不能!”
★雷诺兹回顾漫长创作生涯,精选15篇科幻经典之作,篇篇脑洞大到爆!15个绚烂的科幻世界,创世之火吞噬文明之景映照眼前!数百种天马行空的科幻奇想,静候星辰之间!全新的太空歌剧在此拉开帷幕!
★最好的科幻是基于宇宙尺度的面向生命与文明的发问,人类文明的未来,隐匿在星河之间!
2022年5月20日 想读
爱,死亡和机器人 1 Goodreads 豆瓣
Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One
5.8 (6 个评分) 作者: [美国] 刘宇昆 / [美国] 约翰·斯卡尔齐 译者: 耿辉 2022 - 5
❤️☠️🤖
Netflix现象级神剧《爱,死亡和机器人》原著小说,官方唯一授权结集。
豆瓣超40万人打出超高分9.2,超五星口碑神作。
重磅导演精心挑选:《死侍》导演蒂姆•米勒与《七宗罪》《消失的爱人》导演大卫•芬奇从百篇作品优中选优。
云集星云奖、雨果奖、奥斯卡奖、艾 美奖得主等全球重磅作家。
美国科幻与奇幻作家协会前主席——雨果奖和星云奖得主约翰•斯卡尔齐,“科幻小说之王” “赛博朋克流派文学导师” J.G.巴拉德, 11次斩获布莱姆•斯托克奖的乔•R.兰斯代尔,首位华裔“雨果奖”“星云奖”双冠作家——《三体》英译者刘宇昆,第94届奥斯卡最佳动画短片奖获得者阿尔贝托•米尔戈……
末日废土、赛博朋克、蒸汽朋克、架空历史……炸裂脑洞构建缤纷的幻想盛宴。
爱、死亡和机器人,三个关键词,以恣意想象与深邃哲思探讨人类文化与身份,思考存在和自由意志的本质。
第一眼炫酷,第二眼自省,第三眼深邃,而后便是了悟人性之后的豁达与通透。
也许,这就是如此多人爱上《爱,死亡和机器人》的原因。
❤️☠️🤖
爱,是人的心理需求,它充实了人类的精神世界。
死亡,是人的归宿,它定义了人类的生命。
机器人,是人的工具,它是人类智能的进化方向。
❤️☠️🤖
“爱,死亡和机器人系列”由故事独立、风格迥异、短小精悍的多篇小说构成,涵盖悬疑、恐怖、喜剧、科幻、奇幻等风格,包含末日废土、赛博朋克、蒸汽朋克等科幻元素。它跨越了时间和空间:20世纪初的美国西部荒野、阿富汗战场、近代的中国香港、二战时期的西伯利亚、未来的伦敦、人类灭绝后的地球……;它跨越了历史、文化与传统:《捕猎愉快》中的狐狸精和跳尸、《灵魂吸食者》中的吸血鬼德古拉原型——弗拉德三世、《鱼出现的夜晚》中印第安人的曼尼托神灵……通过爱、死亡、机器人这三个关键词,切入对人类文化、感情、精神和身份的探讨,以及对存在、自由意志、技术理性等哲学命题的探索。
❤️☠️🤖
《爱,死亡和机器人》的动画就好比摄像镜头捕捉好的、精心剪辑到足以让你惊奇的《动物世界》,而阅读这些原著则更像是“野外观察欣赏野生动物”,读者背着想象力的背包,踏上与它们零距离探索之路。——蒂姆•米勒
刘宇昆的《捕猎愉快》展开了对人类身份认同的探讨,优雅而深刻,感人而发人深省,是当代一流科幻作品的代表。——《出版人周刊》
每个短片都有自己独特而成熟的故事。超现实未来主义风格和多维概念的巧妙构思,引领了科幻动画的新潮流。——IMDb网友评论
天马行空,脑洞大开,技术成熟,浓缩的都是精华。——豆瓣网友评论
2022年5月20日 想读
緩慢 豆瓣
La Lenteur
作者: 米蘭.昆德拉 / Milan Kundera 译者: 嚴慧瑩 時報出版 1996
由於旅途中的駕駛事件,論及了速度、時間以及記憶、歷史、遺忘等主題;以城堡為場景,穿插了美麗的愛情故事,並交織著當代與 18 世紀兩個時空……。豐富的意涵,不時流露著詼諧、諷刺及輕鬆的巧思,散發著昆德拉無窮的魅力。
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繼《不朽》這本小說之後,昆德拉 5 年間沒再寫小說。1995年初,他又出版了最新一本小說《緩慢》,再度讓讀者驚喜,讓書評家讚嘆。
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從小說名字「緩慢」兩字,就可以窺知昆德拉對「時間」質疑的企圖。他對「時間」下的定義很廣:記憶、歷史、速度、遺忘……加上書中時空交錯的呼應安排。《閱讀》(Lire)雜誌(95年 2 月)對這本書的書評標題便是:「優遊於時間之中的昆德拉。」不僅因為他對「時間」這個主題的從容揮灑安排,也因為在這本百餘頁的小說中,昆德拉在字裡行間流露他少見的詼諧、諷刺和輕鬆。
2022年5月20日 想读
古怪的身体 豆瓣
ちぐはぐな身体 : ファッションって何?
6.9 (11 个评分) 作者: [日] 鷲田清一 译者: 吴俊伸 重庆大学出版社 2015 - 10
每个人的身体都有着这样那样不同的特征,每个人对待自己的身体也都抱着又爱又恨的心情。穿衣打扮更是是我们现代人每天都无法回避的话题。而时尚到底是怎么一回事呢?看似奇葩的街头潮流,其背后隐藏的信息是什么?像川久保玲、山本耀司、三宅一生这样的设计师们试图通过服装表达的又是什么?说到底人为什么会通过穿衣服来隐藏自己的身体?而真正想隐藏的到底又是什么?
哲学教授鹫田清一希望通过一种简单易懂的方式向人们讲述他关于时尚的“身体论”。
2022年5月20日 想读
Disability Visibility 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Alice Wong (Editor) Vintage 2020 - 6
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.
2022年5月20日 想读
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Robert McRuer NYU Press 2006 - 6 其它标题: Crip Theory
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other. Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy . McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to insist that another world is possible.
2022年5月20日 想读
The Queer Art of Failure Goodreads
作者: J. Jack Halberstam Duke University Press 2011 - 9
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Judith Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one’s way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. She pays particular attention to animated children’s films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido.
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Female Masculinity 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Jack Halberstam Duke University Press Books 1998 - 10
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.
Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister’s diaries and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among “transgender dykes”—lesbians who pass as men—and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of “lesbian” a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators.
Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.
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Afterglow Goodreads
作者: Eileen Myles Grove Press 2017 - 9
Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie.In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog's well-being, especially in her final days. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet owner. Through this lens, we witness Myles' experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, as well as the fantastical myths we spin to get to the heart of grief.Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles' childhood puppet to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull, from lyrical transcriptions of their walks to Rosie's enlightened narration from the afterlife, Afterglow illuminates all that it can mean when we dedicate our existence to a dog.
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Julia Serano Seal Press 2007 - 5 其它标题: Whipping Girl
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations — both pre- and post-transition — to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.
Serano's well-honed arguments stem from her ability to bridge the gap between the often-disparate biological and social perspectives on gender. She exposes how deep-rooted the cultural belief is that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive, and how this "feminine" weakness exists only to attract and appease male desire.
In addition to debunking popular misconceptions about transsexuality, Serano makes the case that today's feminists and transgender activist must work to embrace and empower femininity — in all of its wondrous forms.
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Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Thomas Page McBee Scribner 2018 - 8 其它标题: Amateur
Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even means—through his experience training for and fighting in a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden. A self-described “amateur” at masculinity, McBee embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of gender in society, examining sexism, toxic masculinity, and privilege. As he questions the limitations of gender roles and the roots of masculine aggression, he finds intimacy, hope, and even love in the experience of boxing and in his role as a man in the world.

Through interviews with experts in neuroscience, sociology, and critical race theory, he constructs a deft and thoughtful examination of the role of men in contemporary society . Amateur is a graceful and uncompromising look at gender by a fearless, fiercely honest writer.

Runtime: 3 hours and 38 minutes
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Bornstein, Kate; Bergman, S. Bear; Seal Press 2010 - 8 其它标题: Gender Outlaws
In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers — new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected mainstream news sources. Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Anne Fausto-Sterling Basic Books 2000 - 11 其它标题: Sexing the Body
Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.


Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced.


Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.
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Poetics of Relation 谷歌图书 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Édouard Glissant 译者: Betsy Wing University of Michigan Press 1997 - 11
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. When he returned to his native land in the mid-sixties, his writing began to focus on the idea of a "relational poetics," which laid the groundwork for the "créolité" movement, fueled by the understanding that Caribbean culture and identity are the positive products of a complex and multiple set of local historical circumstances. Some of the metaphors of local identity Glissant favored—the hinterland (or lack of it), the maroon (or runaway slave), the creole language—proved lasting and influential.

In Poetics of Relation , Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the Antilles as enduring suffering imposed by history, yet as a place whose unique interactions will one day produce an emerging global consensus. Arguing that the writer alone can tap the unconscious of a people and apprehend its multiform culture to provide forms of memory capable of transcending "nonhistory," Glissant defines his "poetics of relation"—both aesthetic and political—as a transformative mode of history, capable of enunciating and making concrete a French-Caribbean reality with a self-defined past and future. Glissant's notions of identity as constructed in relation and not in isolation are germane not only to discussions of Caribbean creolization but also to our understanding of U.S. multiculturalism. In Glissant's view, we come to see that relation in all its senses—telling, listening, connecting, and the parallel consciousness of self and surroundings—is the key to transforming mentalities and reshaping societies.

This translation of Glissant's work preserves the resonating quality of his prose and makes the richness and ambiguities of his voice accessible to readers in English.
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The Visible and the Invisible 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Maurice Merleau-Ponty 译者: Alphonso Lingis Northwestern University Press 1968 - 1
The Visible and the Invisible contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining–The Chiasm," that reveals the central pattern of Merleau-Ponty's own thought. The working notes for the book provide the reader with a truly exciting insight into the mind of the philosopher at work as he refines and develops new pivotal concepts.
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