Trans Narrators : First-Person Form and the Gendered Body in Contemporary Literature

Chiara Pellegrini

ISBN 10: 1399526944 / ISBN 13: 9781399526944

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Apr 2025, 2025

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Neuware - Demonstrates how contemporary trans narrators reshape current understandings of narrative form and gender identity. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781399526944

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Titel: Trans Narrators : First-Person Form and the ...

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Apr 2025

Erscheinungsdatum: 2025

Einband: Buch

Zustand: Neu

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Trans Narrators examines a range of trans-authored novels, short stories and autobiographical narratives published after 2015 and develops a new methodology at the intersection of trans studies and narrative studies. The book identifies temporality, embodiment and reliability as key areas of investment for trans authors, and focuses specifically on the first-person narrator, showing how its formal characteristics impact how we understand gender and the body, the act of narrating the self, and the ability of marginalised subjects to speak and be visible. By creating a framework for reading trans narratives, this book responds to the urgency of promoting trans voices in a transnational context in which trans rights are at risk, as well as to a growing understanding of the role of narrative forms in shaping collective thought, politics and material conditions.

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Chiara Pellegrini completed her Ph.D. at Newcastle University in 2022 and currently works as an independent researcher and as an Equity and Inclusion Adviser at Canterbury Christ Church University. She has published articles and book chapters on queer theory and film adaptation, contemporary trans memoirs and novels, queer temporalities in film and television, the body in intersex narratives, and feminism and popular culture. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Narrative entitled 'Trans/forming Narrative Studies' (2024).