Any rationale for including an essay on queering the romcom in a collection on ecoadaptation depends on two kinds of connections: one between the genre of romantic comedy and adaptation, and another between the ecology of nature and the ecology of what is commonly called human nature. Nature and genre have long been understood as timeless universals, a status often claimed for ecology as well. But it is precisely an ecological perspective that decenters both Nature and genre, revealing them as human constructions that seek to impose order on ceaselessly generative processes that resist it. The binaries that underlie both Nature and the romantic comedy are rooted in heterosexist practices and beliefs that seem universal only to those who wish they were universal. This chapter proposes to reimagine adaptations of the romantic comedy that replace the binaries typical of its genre and its view of human nature with a mesh that not only accommodates but celebrates nonbinary unions.

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Against Nature? Queering the Romcom

  • Thomas Leitch

摘要

Any rationale for including an essay on queering the romcom in a collection on ecoadaptation depends on two kinds of connections: one between the genre of romantic comedy and adaptation, and another between the ecology of nature and the ecology of what is commonly called human nature. Nature and genre have long been understood as timeless universals, a status often claimed for ecology as well. But it is precisely an ecological perspective that decenters both Nature and genre, revealing them as human constructions that seek to impose order on ceaselessly generative processes that resist it. The binaries that underlie both Nature and the romantic comedy are rooted in heterosexist practices and beliefs that seem universal only to those who wish they were universal. This chapter proposes to reimagine adaptations of the romantic comedy that replace the binaries typical of its genre and its view of human nature with a mesh that not only accommodates but celebrates nonbinary unions.