Transgothic in Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367667535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Jolene Zigarovich

Opis

This book offers new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. It explores categories like transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, and broader concepts that move beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpo

Recenzje

"There are very few collections of essays on the Gothic and issues of gender and genre that are as cutting-edge and innovative as this one. While other studies have gotten powerfully at the relation of the Gothic to "queer" or alternative sexualities, the pieces here hone in with great analytical power and theoretical rigor on how and why various modes of Gothic render the blurring of and crossing between gender boundaries and even body types, putting in question nearly all definitions of particular sexualities and all standard articulations of the human body’s limits. These discussions even match their depiction of what is transgender with how the trans-generic mode that is the Gothic keeps transforming itself to reconceive of human multiplicity, real and imagined. This book therefore occupies a distinct and valuable niche within Gothic studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, literature and film studies, and studies of the languages and politics of human self-definition." --Jerrold E. Hogle, Department of English, University of Arizona, USA

Spis treści

Foreword

Susan Stryker

Introduction: "Transing the Gothic"

Jolene Zigarovich

Part I: Transgothic Gender

Chapter 1. "Beyond Queer Gothic: Charting the Gothic History of the Trans Subject in Beckford, Lewis, Byron"

Nowell Marshall

Chapter 2. "Go to Hell: William Beckford’s Skewed Heaven and Hell"

Jeremy Chow

Chapter 3. "Transgothic Desire in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya"

Jolene Zigarovich

Chapter 4. "That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like A Beautiful Girl": Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales"

Ardel Haefele-Thomas

Part II: Transgothic Bodies

Chapter 5. "Monster Trans: Diffracting Affect, Reading Rage"

Harlan Weaver

Chapter 6. "More Than Skin Deep: Aliens, Fembots, and Trans-Monstrosities in Techno-Gothic Space"

April Miller

Chapter 7. "Gothic Gender in Skin Suits, or The (Transgender) Skin I Live In"

Anson Koch-Rein

Part III: Transgothic Rhetorics

Chapter 8. "The Media of Madness: Gothic transmedia and the Cthulhu mythos"

Jason Whittaker

Chapter 9. "Black Weddings and Black Mirrors: Gothic as Transgeneric Mode"

Hannah Priest

Chapter 10. "The state of play: transgressive caricature and transnational Enlightenment"

Ian McCormick

Index

O autorze

Jolene Zigarovich is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.