Transgenre

"TransGenre is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. Using four genres, this Element considers how the minoritized becomes the minoritarian through deterritorializing generic conventions in fiction to its own ends"--

List of contents

1. TransGenre; 2. The road novel; 3. The mourning novel; 4. The (Chosen) family novel; 5. The archival novel; 6. TransGeneric; Works Cited.

Summary

TransGenre is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. Using four genre sites (the road novel, the mourning novel, the chosen family novel, and the archival novel), this Element considers how the minoritized becomes the minoritarian through deterritorializing generic conventions in fiction to its own ends. In so doing, TransGenre proposes narrative reading practices as strategies of the minor to subvert, transgress, and reappropriate the novel's genealogy and radical future prospects. A range of fiction published in the last decade is deployed as largely self-theorizing, generating its own epistemological, thematic, and formal innovations and possibilities, revealing cisheteronormative underpinnings of generic categories and turning them in on themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Hammes, Aaron (Case Western Reserve University Hammes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009502221
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950222-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, Gender studies: transgender & intersex