TransGothic in Literature and Culture

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-69910-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Foreword

Susan Stryker

Introduction: "Transing the Gothic"

Jolene Zigarovich

Part I: Transgothic Gender

Chapter 1. "Beyond Queer Gothic: Charting the Gothic History of the Trans Subject in Beckford, Lewis, Byron"

Nowell Marshall

Chapter 2. "Go to Hell: William Beckford’s Skewed Heaven and Hell"

Jeremy Chow

Chapter 3. "Transgothic Desire in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya"

Jolene Zigarovich

Chapter 4. "That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like A Beautiful Girl": Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales"

Ardel Haefele-Thomas

Part II: Transgothic Bodies

Chapter 5. "Monster Trans: Diffracting Affect, Reading Rage"

Harlan Weaver

Chapter 6. "More Than Skin Deep: Aliens, Fembots, and Trans-Monstrosities in Techno-Gothic Space"

April Miller

Chapter 7. "Gothic Gender in Skin Suits, or The (Transgender) Skin I Live In"

Anson Koch-Rein

Part III: Transgothic Rhetorics

Chapter 8. "The Media of Madness: Gothic transmedia and the Cthulhu mythos"

Jason Whittaker

Chapter 9. "Black Weddings and Black Mirrors: Gothic as Transgeneric Mode"

Hannah Priest

Chapter 10. "The state of play: transgressive caricature and transnational Enlightenment"

Ian McCormick

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Zusatzinfo	7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-69910-1 / 1138699101
ISBN-13	978-1-138-69910-6 / 9781138699106
Zustand	Neuware