TransGenre / Aaron Hammes, Case Western Reserve University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammes, Aaron, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in feminism and contemporary critical theory, 2754-303X.

Cambridge elements. Elements in feminism and contemporary critical theory, 2754-303X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people's writings, American--History and criticism.

Trans people's writings, American.

Trans people's writings, Canadian--History and criticism.

Trans people's writings, Canadian.

American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Canadian fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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.

Contents:

TransGenre

The road novel

The mourning novel

The (chosen) family novel

The archival novel

TransGeneric.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jan 2025).

ISBN:

9781009502207

1009502204

9781009502184

1009502182

9781009502191

1009502190