Mapping Multi-Genre Literary Frameworks for Trans* Studies - Without Permanence

This book explores new critical methods for interpreting the emergent, cross-genre counter-narrative techniques of trans* authors and allies. Jack outlines the roles that archives, exclusionary feminisms, medical rubrics, and national surveillance protocols have played in shaping the representation of gender-transing subjects.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Counter-narrative Trends in Trans* Literature
Chapter One: Biopolitical Control and Surveillance
Chapter Two: Medical Legacies and Ambiguous Embodiment.
Chapter Three: "Transgender Natives" and "Third Gender"
Chapter Four: Strategic Essentialisms and Accessing a Trans* Past
Chapter Five: Emergent Trans* Literatures
Conclusion: Future Directions in Trans* Studies
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Jesse Jack

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Jack, Jesse Jack
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781666950755
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-075-5
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Politics & government, Literature: history & criticism, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity