Rachel Carroll

Transgender and The Literary Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the depiction of transgender identity in twentieth-century and contemporary literary fictionTransgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender. Grounded in feminist scholarship, informed by queer theory and indebted to transgender studies, this book investigates the ways in which transgender identities and histories have been 'authored by others', with a focus on literary fiction by British, Irish and American authors, life writing and adaptation for stage and screen.Key Features:First full length study of the representation of transgender characters in twentieth century literary fictionEssential overview of key critical issues for the analysis of transgender representation in literary fiction, informed by contemporary cultural debates Original readings of a selection of fiction by British, Irish and American authors, including Angela Carter, Patricia Duncker, David Ebershoff, Jackie Kay and George MooreOriginal readings of award-winning film adaptations, Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Danish Girl (2016)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474414678
• Artikelnr.: 72421164

Autorenporträt

Rachel Carroll is Reader in English at Teesside University, UK. She is author of Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and editor of Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities (Continuum, 2009) and Litpop: Writing and Popular Music (with Adam Hansen, Ashgate, 2014). Her research has been published in journals including Adaptation, Contemporary Women's Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Textual Practice and Women: a cultural review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Transgender and the literary imagination: changing gender in
twentieth century writing; 1. 'Two men, so dissimilar': class, marriage and
masculinity in George Moore's Albert Nobbs (1918) and Simone Benmussa's The
Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (1976); 2. 'She had never been a woman':
Second Wave feminism, femininity and transgender in Angela Carter's The
Passion of New Eve (1977); 3. 'Playing the breeches part': feminist
appropriations, biographical fictions and colonial contexts in Patricia
Duncker's James Miranda Barry (1999); 4. Two beings / one body: intersex
lives and transsexual narratives in Man into Woman (1933) and David
Ebershoff's The Danish Girl (2000); 5. Blue births and last words:
rewriting race, nation and family in Jackie Kay's Trumpet (1998); 6. Never
an unhappy hour: revisiting marriage in film adaptations of Albert Nobbs
(2011) and The Danish Girl (2016); Bibliography; Index.