Trans Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781032058467 / Miękka / 2023 / 160 str.

Opis

This book aims to understand through life writing and its theory what trans means when we talk about identities and bodies, and to understand better what the critical terms transmedia and transnational can mean for the field of life writing.

Spis treści

Introduction

Unfixing the Prefix in Life-Writing Studies: Trans, Transmedia, Transnational

Ana Horvat, Orly Lael Netzer, Sarah McRae and Julie Rak

Essays

1. Becoming Culturally (Un)intelligible: Exploring the Terrain of Trans Life Writing

Evan Vipond

2. Posttranssexual Temporalities: Negotiating Canonical Memoir Narratives in Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaw and Juliet Jacques’s Trans

Chiara Pellegrini

3. Examining Trans Narratives in the Wake of Norway’s Gender Recognition Law

france rose hartline

4. Against a Single Story: Diverse Trans* Narratives in Autobiographical Documentary Film

Sarah Ray Rondot

5. Transnational Digital Biography: The Forgetting and Remembering of Winifred Atwell

Pamela Graham

Critical Response

6. The Afterlives of Stars, Known and Unknown

Lily Cho

How Would You Teach It?

7. Potential for Healing and Harm: Teaching Trans Narratives to Trans Students

Erica Chu

8. Learning to Listen: The Power of Transnational Life Storytelling

Leila Moayeri Pazargadi

What’s Next?

9. What’s Next is the Past

Lucas Crawford

O autorze

Ana Horvat is lecturer for Soochow University. They have been published in the a/b: Auto/Biography Studies journal.

Orly Lael Netzer is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her work focuses on transnational auto/biography, testimony, and ethics. She has co-edited special issues of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and has been published in Canadian Literature.

Sarah McRae is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Her doctoral research, parts of which have been published in Persona Studies, was on digital self-representation, authenticity, and anti-fans. She currently writes on economic policy for the Atlantic Institute of Policy Research.

Julie Rak holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of the forthcoming False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (2021) and many other books, collections and articles about nonfiction, popular culture, and print culture.