The new woman : literary modernism, queer theory, and the trans feminine allegory / Emma Heaney.
2017
PN56.G45 H43 2017
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Title
The new woman : literary modernism, queer theory, and the trans feminine allegory / Emma Heaney.
Author
Heaney, Emma, author.
ISBN
9780810135550 (electronic bk.)
0810135558 (electronic bk.)
9780810135536 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0810135531 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780810135543 (cloth ; alk. paper)
081013554X (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810135558 (electronic bk.)
9780810135536 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0810135531 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780810135543 (cloth ; alk. paper)
081013554X (cloth ; alk. paper)
Published
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PN56.G45 H43 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.9335267
Summary
The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory 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. The 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 trans feminine'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.-- Provided by publisher.
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 trans feminine'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.-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Usage; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Modernist Allegory of Trans Femininity; 1. The Development of the Allegory of Trans Femininity: Sexology, Gay Rights, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Modernism; 2. Blooming into a Female Everyman: Feeling like a Woman in Joyce's Ulysses; 3. The Flesh That Would Become Myth: Barnes's Suffering Female Anatomy and the Trans Feminine Example; 4. Ceased to Be Word and Became Flesh: Trans Feminine Life Writing and Genet's Vernacular Modernism; Part II: Materialist Trans Feminism against Queer Theory; 5. A Triumphant Plural: Post-Structuralism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine6. Materialist Trans Feminism against Queer Theory; Notes; Works Cited; Index.