Ambiguous selves : contesting gender binaries in literature, film and the media / edited by Barbara Braid, Ewa Glapka and Malwina Siemiatkowska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braid, Barbara

Contributor:

Braid, Barbara, editor.

Glapka, Ewa, editor.

Siemiatkowska, Malwina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity in literature.

Gender identity in motion pictures.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This collection of essays on selected texts in literature, film and the media is driven by a shared theme of contesting the binary thinking in respect of gender and sexuality. The three parts of this book - "contesting norms", "performing selves" and "blurring the lines" - delineate the queer celebration of difference and deviance. They pinpoint the limitation of assumed norms and subverting them, revel in the fluid and ambiguous self that springs from the contestation of those norms, and then repeatedly transgress and, as a result, obscure the limits that separate the normal from the abnormal. The variety of texts included in the collection ranges from a discussion of queer subjects represented in film, television and literature to that of the representations of other non-normative figures (including a madwoman, a freak or a prostitute) and to gender-role contestation and gender-bending practicing evidenced in the press, theatre, film, literature and popular culture.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Part I

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Part II

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Part III

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5275-4375-7

OCLC:

1149098311