Zigarovich TransGothic in Literature and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-51771-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions, including: How can we discuss Gothic as a genre that crosses over boundaries constructed by a culture to define and contain gender and sexuality? How do transgender bodies specifically mark or disrupt this boundary crossing? In what ways does the Gothic open up a plural narrative space for transgenre explorations, encounters, and experimentation? With this, the volume’s chapters explore expected categories such as transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, but also broader concepts that move through and beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpolitics, transmodalities, and transgenres. Illuminating such areas as the appropriation of the trans body in Gothic literature and film, the function of trans rhetorics in memoir, textual markers of transgenderism, and the Gothic’s transgeneric qualities, the chapters offer innovative, but not limited, ways to interpret the Gothic. In addition, the book intersects with but also troubles non-trans feminist and queer readings of the Gothic. Together, these diverse approaches engage the Gothic as a definitively trans subject, and offer new and exciting connections and insights into Gothic, Media, Film, Narrative, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zigarovich, Jolene

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction Jolene Zigarovich

Part I. Gothic Transgenderism

1. Transtextuality in the Male Gothic: Beckford, Lewis, Byron Nowell Marshall

2. Transgothic Desire in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya Jolene Zigarovich

3. Private Memoirs and Strange Cases: Temporality and Transhistory in Hogg and Stevenson Christopher Nagle

Part II. Gothic Transembodiment

4. Monster Trans: Diffrracting Affect, Reading Rage Harlan Weaver

5. ’We Had Disgraced Ourselves as Englishmen Forever’: Transforming Imperial, Religious, and Cultural Rhetoric in Three fin-de-siècle Werewolf Tales Ardel Thomas

6. Go to Hell: William Beckford’s Skewed Heaven and Hell Jeremy Chow

Part III. Gothic Transhistoricities, Transmedia, & Transgenres

7. Gothic Gender in Skin Suits, or The (Transgender) Skin I Live In Anson Koch-Rein

8. Gothic Hybridity: The Contemporary Gothic as Transgeneric Mode Xavier Aldana-Reyes

9. The State of Play: Transgressive Caricature and Transnational Enlightenment Ian McCormick

Conclusion Jolene Zigarovich

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

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