TransNarratives: Scholarly and Creative Works on Transgender Experience

ISBN-13: 9780889616226

Kristi Carter;James Brunton

Opis

Filling a gap in literature and fulfilling the need for trans-focused work, TransNarratives is an interdisciplinary collection featuring narratives of transgender experiences, providing a sourcebook of a range of trans perspectives, writing styles, and trans methodological fields of applicability. The works included transcend disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of academic knowledge and creativity, actively deconstructing binaries wherever they begin to appear, whether with regard to gender, race, ability, or sexuality, or to the binary divisions that can sometimes separate academic and creative production.Calling attention to transgender writers, this unique and timely text showcases a wide variety of material, including scholarship from multi- and interdisciplinary transgender perspectives, poetry and fiction that foregrounds trans experience, and first-person transgender narratives. The essays, poems, and stories cover a range of topics relevant to transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary experiences, across time, geographic location, and cultures. An important addition to the field, this groundbreaking text will serve as an essential collection of works for students and researchers in transgender studies, queer studies, and gender studies. FEATURES: Provides accessible, thematically wide-ranging, and stylistically diverse writings, including scholarship from multi- and interdisciplinary transgender perspectives Includes multi-generational perspectives and non-able-bodied subjectivities Uniquely formatted to support a dialogue between creative and scholarly work

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• Introduction
• Section I: Trans-Selves/Trans-Origins
  Chapter 1 "My Whole Life Has Been Coming Out of One Closet or Another": Narratives of Transgender Youth in Cape Breton Regional Municipality - Leigh Potvin, Christie Ragan, and Emily Root
  Chapter 2 The Fool's Journey to Telling Transness - AJ Ripley
  Chapter 3 TRANSitioning Out of the Army - Thai Thao Nguyen
  Chapter 4 How a Flat Chest Helped Me Fit into a Dress - Markus "Star" Harwood-Jones
  Chapter 5 Transliminality: Black Transfemmes and the Limit of Visibility Politics - Nathan Alexander Moore
  Chapter 6 (Philosophical) Tales of the Unexpected: Pre-Transition and Post-Transition Selves - Stephanie Kapusta
• Section II: Community and Interpersonal Relationships
  Chapter 7 Navigating Gender Together - Gemma M. Hickey and Vicki S. Hallett
  Chapter 8 Transscript - Tamara Austim and Jay Austin
  Chapter 9 TransLove: An In-Depth Examination of Intimate Relationships - Alana Rister and Kathy McCleaf
  Chapter 10 "A Tale of Two Worlds," "Sorry, You Have Been Deleted," and "I Was Going to Tell You Something but Then I Forgot What It Was" - Joanna C. Valente
  Chapter 11 The Stone Prince and the Lost Boi: Crossing the Boundaries of Gender and Generation - Kate Krug and Eli Quirk
  Chapter 12 Dancing on Petals - Rohini Bannerjee
• Section III: Page, Stage, and Screen
  Chapter 13 "One Hundred Percent Dude": Straightening Degrassi's Adam Torres - Evan Vipond
  Chapter 14 Measure of a (Wo)man: Female-to-Male Transformation in Early Christian and Medieval Narrative Traditions - Angela Groening Bolen
  Chapter 15 No Other Words: The Stories of Lili Elbe - Markus Harwood-Jones
  Chapter 16 Excerpt from Gender/Genre - Erin M. Bertram
  Chapter 17 Trans*ed and Latined: Representation and the Possibilities of Excess - D. Bustillo
  Chapter 18 #TransTwitter: Affect, Transnarratives, and Gender Euphoria - Hannah K. Grabowski
  Chapter 19 "What I Wanted to Wear": The Battle for Self-Expression amid Transphobic Street Violence - Anna Kozak
  Chapter 20 "The Joke Is, It's Not a Joke": Revolution through Laughter in the Works of Annie Danger - Jesse O'Rear
• Section IV: Interventions and Activism
  Chapter 21 My Gender is Crip: Engaging the Experience of being Trans and Disabled - Niamh Timmons
  Chapter 22 Informed Consent: Transgender Men and the Reification of Hegemonic Masculinity - Benjamin C. Kennedy
  Chapter 23 The Story of the [Error] Ant - Emory James Edwards/[404—Name Not Found]
  Chapter 24 Languaging a Future for Lovepersons: Speculative Strategies Towards Radical Trans/cendence - Elæ Moss
  Chapter 25 Thank You Notes: Trans, Nonbinary, and Two-Spirit Poetic Interventions into the Academy's Use of Acknowledgements - Frances O'Shaughnessy
  Chapter 26 The "New" White Feminism: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism and the Problem of Biological Determinism in Western Feminist Theory - Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa
  Chapter 27 Intersectional Feminism as a Framework for Policy Change: An Equitable Approach to Title IX - Sarah Simmons
• Glossary of Terms
  About the Editors
  About the Contributors