クィアな結婚で「幸せになってダメになろう」 : 能町みね子『結婚の奴』における新しいケア関係

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  • “Be Happy and Get Spoiled” with a Queer Marriage : An Alternative Care Relationship in Nōmachi Mineko’s Kekkon no Yatsu

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This article examines Nōmachi Mineko’s autobiographical essay Kekkon no Yatsu (2019) in order to see how its narrative queers normative marriage and creates an alternative good caring relationship. In Kekkon, Nōmachi depicts the “marriage” project she started through the eyes of the protagonist “I”: a “married” life with a gay man without amorous love or sexual relationship. By referencing the concept “amatonormativity,” coined by Elizabeth Brake, this article reads Nōmachi’s queer “marriage” as a challenge to the current hegemonic marriage system that prevented women from developing moral and mutual caring relationships. According to Brake, amatonormativity dominates both marital and non-marital relationships by secluding women in a private sphere when they marry, and stigmatizing those who don’t assimilate to the hegemonic ideology and the caring relationships they build outside marriage. In other words, women are forced to choose between being oppressed in the home or being marginalized as a deviant. I argue that Nōmachi’s autobiographical narrative shows readers a way to weave through this unjust choice by queering the normative marriage. First, I examine the episodes about two female friends of “I” in Kekkon to discuss how amatonormativity influences both the marital and non-marital relationships. Then, I analyze the representation of their “marriage” as referring to the concept “disidentification” defined by José Esteban Muñoz to argue that there emerges a good caring relationship in their “marriage” life. The last section focuses on the construction of queer subjectivity and community that are enabled by the literary form of life writing. By reconstructing her past as a narrative, Nōmachi pictures the blueprint of the queer future for her contemporary readers.

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