经济学人:美国男同性恋的故事
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美国同志曾如何梦想，如何改变
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Drawing on biographies and memoirs, Mr Bram, himself a gay novelist of some note, stitches together a relaxed, gossipy narrative about the friendships, rivalries, sexcapades and love affairs that gave gay writers much of their raw material. As the story moves towards his own time he is 60, one senses his becoming a little more cautious with the tittle-tattle. But he still offers plenty of sharp observations on the complicated relationships of his subjects to the vagaries of gay politics and to each other. He is a perceptive literary critic, too, and not shy of praising writers he admires, even as he chides others for their flaws.
Mr Bram attributes the neglect of this facet of literary history to a persistent discomfort in the straight world with too much overt gayness. But his corrective goes a little too far the other way. Limiting the study to gay, male American writers is fine, books have to draw their boundaries somewhere, but he then confines them to a gay, male American cultural bubble. When influences are discussed, they are usually other writers of the same group, as if the rest of literature were irrelevant. And he almost never has a good word for his subjects' forays into non-gay themes.Mr Bram本人也是一位小有名气的同性恋小说家。他借鉴自传和回忆录中的材料，将同性恋作家的那些事儿缀成文章，用轻松闲谈的语气娓娓道来，讲述了他们的友情、对抗、风流韵事、爱恨情仇；这些经历为作家们自己提供了大量写作素材。当故事发生的时间推移至他的时代后，Mr Bram现年60岁，你会发现闲谈变得稍微谨慎了些。不过，他仍然提出了一些对于观察对象的犀利观点，关于他们之间复杂的权力纠葛和私人关系。同时，他还是一名眼光锐利的批评家，尽管会批评一些作家的缺点，对崇敬的作家却从不吝惜赞美之词。
Mr Bram认为，同性恋这一文学史领域被忽略事出有因，异性恋们一直对太多公开的同性恋倾向不怎么待见。不过他有些矫枉过正了。把研究范围限定在美国男同性恋作家身上没什么不好，书总得有个主题，但只在美国男同性恋文化范围里讨论这些人就不对。虽然作家各不相同，谈及影响时范围却总是同一个，好像文学的其它方面都与他们无涉。对于他们的非同性恋题材作品，Mr Bram也几乎没有好话。
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