本⽂研究了 Ocean Vuong 的半⾃傳⼩說《此⽣，你我皆短暫燦爛》中族類意識對酷兒和族裔主體⽣活的影響。該書為半⾃傳⼩說，讀者得以深⼊了解這個家庭痛苦的過去、主⾓與母親之間強烈的愛恨情仇、禁忌的同性戀情中的情慾覺醒，以及不平等的壓倒性結構使社會中無論其性別、種族和性傾向的不幸者陷⼊困境。Ocean Vuong 為越南裔美國酷兒作家，在康乃狄克州哈特福由單親母親撫養⾧⼤，童年充滿了來⾃祖母和母親焦慮的保護和家庭暴⼒。這部⼩說以書信體的形式寫成，是他對不識字的母親的親密獨⽩，編織了⼀個橫跨越戰後來到美國的三代移民家庭的美麗⽽痛苦的故事。本⽂認為，在涉及個⼈和家庭的移民故事背後，隱藏著根深蒂固的權⼒機制，這種機制既被不同種族、階級和性別的⼈從內部默默內化，⼜從外部強⾏施加。

The thesis focuses on the effect of ethnicity on the lives of queer and racial subjects in Ocean Vuong’s semi-autobiographical novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. This book is a semiautobiographical novel in which readers are treated with an in-depth look at the family’s traumatic past, the intense love-hate relationship between the protagonist and his mother, the erotic awakening
through the forbidden homosexual love affair, and the overriding structure of inequality that has trapped the less fortunate in society, regardless of their sex, race, and sexuality. As a VietnameseAmerican queer writer raised by a single mother in Hartford, Connecticut, Ocean Vuong had a childhood mixed with anxious protection and domestic violence from his grandmother and mother. The novel is written in epistolary form, as an intimate monologue to his illiterate mother that weaves together a beautiful yet painful story across three generations of an immigrant family who came to the United States after the Vietnam war. I contend that underneath the immigrant saga dealing with the personal and the familial lies an entrenched mechanism of power that has been both silently internalized from within and forcefully imposed from without by people of different races, classes
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