TransNarratives
Scholarly and Creative Works on Transgender Experience
By Kristi Carter, James Brunton
Description
Filling a gap in literature and fulfilling the need for trans-focused work, TransNarratives is an interdisciplinary collection featuring narratives of transgender experiences, providing a sourcebook of a range of trans perspectives, writing styles, and trans methodological fields of applicability. The works included transcend disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of academic knowledge and creativity, actively deconstructing binaries wherever they begin to appear, whether with regard to gender, race, ability, or sexuality, or to the binary divisions that can sometimes separate academic and creative production.
Calling attention to transgender writers, this unique and timely text showcases a wide variety of material, including scholarship from multi- and interdisciplinary transgender perspectives, poetry and fiction that foregrounds trans experience, and first-person transgender narratives. The essays, poems, and stories cover a range of topics relevant to transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary experiences, across time, geographic location, and cultures. An important addition to the field, this groundbreaking text will serve as an essential collection of works for students and researchers in transgender studies, queer studies, and gender studies.
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Number of Pages
372
Dimensions
16.50 " x 24.77”
print ISBN
9780889616226
PDF ISBN
9780889616233
EPUB ISBN
9780889616240
Subjects
“This anthology actively dismantles the binary between creative and academic knowledge production using multidisciplinary perspectives and first-person narratives representing a range of trans voices. TransNarratives is a new and necessary sourcebook for teaching and learning in the field of transgender studies.”
—Ian Khara Ellasante, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Bates College
“TransNarratives exemplifies how centering and valuing lived experience creates new methods for understanding different modes of being in the world. With a wide range of voices and approaches to what it means to tell trans stories, this book offers an entryway for readers who may be inquiring about the diversity of trans experience for the first time as well as a respite for those who are seeking kin in shared experience and/or tools for imagining trans life and futures otherwise.”
