사라 워터스의 『나이트 워치』: 블리츠 신화와 전쟁서사의 퀴어화
Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch: Queering the Myth of the Blitz and War Narratives
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This paper explores queers’ war narratives in Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch from the perspective of queer temporality. Waters undermines not only the normative narrative of war time but also The Blitz, which is referred to as Britain’s finest hour. The war depicted in the novel provides lesbian butches with numerous opportunities and affords queers freedom from the gender restrictions that exist only temporarily during war. To rewrite ‘Herstory’ - the invisible lesbian and queer history - Waters deploys reverse chronology not simply to disrupt progressive time but also to judge it, compelling readers to constantly reevaluate the situations in the novel and the characters. The reverse in time is a critique of society’s relentless forward movement, as the life of queers in heteronormative society can never be captured by the logics of progressive time. The backwardness necessarily reflects the inability of the characters to cope with their queer identities and their unwillingness to speak about the shame of being queers. Finally, The Night Watch excavates the repressed and forgotten memories of queers in history to unsettle Blitz spirit and deconstruct exemplary narratives of war literature.
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This paper explores queers’ war narratives in Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch from the perspective of queer temporality. Waters undermines not only the normative narrative of war time but also The Blitz, which is referred to as Britain’s finest hour. The war depicted in the novel provides lesbian butches with numerous opportunities and affords queers freedom from the gender restrictions that exist only temporarily during war. To rewrite ‘Herstory’ - the invisible lesbian and queer history - Waters deploys reverse chronology not simply to disrupt progressive time but also to judge it, compelling readers to constantly reevaluate the situations in the novel and the characters. The reverse in time is a critique of society’s relentless forward movement, as the life of queers in heteronormative society can never be captured by the logics of progressive time. The backwardness necessarily reflects the inability of the characters to cope with their queer identities and their unwillingness to speak about the shame of being queers. Finally, The Night Watch excavates the repressed and forgotten memories of queers in history to unsettle Blitz spirit and deconstruct exemplary narratives of war literature.
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