The new woman : lite`rary modernism, queer theory, and the trans feminine allegory / Emma Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Emma, author.

Series:

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; 27.

FlashPoints ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people in literature.

Transgender people in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Trans women.

Male-to-female transsexuals.

Modernism (Literature).

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

xvii, 345 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The New Woman traces the use of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure, from the practice's origins in nineteenth-century sexology through writings in the fields of psychoanalysis, Modernist fiction, and contemporary Queer Theory. This book is the first to identify the process by which medical sources simplified the diversity of trans feminine experience into a single diagnostic narrative. It then demonstrates that this medical figure became an archetype for the "sexual anarchy" of the Modernist period in works by Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot, and Jean Genet. Thus illuminating the allegory's Modernist provenance, the book examines foundational works of Queer Theory that resuscitated the trans feminine allegory at the end of the twentieth century. Insightful and seminal, The New Woman debunks the pervasive reflex beginning in the 1990s to connect trans experience to a late twentieth-century collapse of sexual differences by revealing the Modernist roots of that very formulation. Book jacket.

Contents:

The modernist allegory of trans femininity

The development of the allegory of trans femininity : sexology, gay rights, psychoanalysis, and modernism

Blooming into a female Everyman : feeling like a woman in Joyce's Ulysses

The flesh that would become myth : Barnes's suffering female and the trans feminine example

Ceased to be word and became flesh : trans feminine life writing and Genet's vernacular modernism

Materialist trans feminism against queer theory

A triumphant plural : post-structuralism, queer theory, and the trans feminine

Materialist trans feminism against queer theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810135536

0810135531

9780810135543

081013554X

OCLC:

958780968