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Journal articles on the topic "Man-woman relationships – Fiction"
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Lee, Terry. "“Instigating Women” and Initiation in Postmodern Male Identity: Women Mentoring Men in Michael Dorris's Short Fiction." Journal of Men’s Studies 6, no. 2 (March 1998): 209–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/106082659800600206.
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Two short stories from Working Men by the American fiction writer Michael Dorris enact romantic heterosexual relationships in which a woman becomes the mentor who helps carry a man stuck in delayed adolescence into initiated manhood. Dorris's stories update and make accessible the mythical and magical elements that Robert Bly has described in his Iron John as being able to renew a man stuck in his boyhood woundedness. Where Bly discusses the female mentor for men in terms of “meeting the god woman” and the wild woman guarding a sacred pond, Dorris fleshes out his female guides in the form of what Bly calls “instigating wom[en],” contemporary women who possess a certain wisdom. These women play a life-transforming role in establishing a more mature, differentiated identity in men.
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Dr. Anchal Tiwari. "Beyond the Bond: Love, Marriage and Romance in Anton Chekhov’s Selected Short Stories." Creative Launcher 7, no. 1 (February 28, 2022): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.1.11.
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Anton Chekhov is a literary giant in nineteenth century fiction. He has contributed to the contemporary literature a deep awareness of human emotions, which foregrounds the necessity to understand the emotional values in narrative. Chekhovian realism has been a formula which writers have diligently followed ever since. In most of his fictional oeuvre he has depicted the individuals of modern society experiencing various shades of emotions which guide their psychological, interpersonal as well as social life. The stories written by Anton Chekhov are kaleidoscopes of various experiences which are an integral part of modern existence. Interpersonal relationships, especially man-woman relationships are portrayed by Chekhov in a striking manner. The present paper is an attempt to study a few of his selected short stories, keeping in mind Chekhov’s interest in a counter-presentation of such relations.
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Malkova, Tetiana. "THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LOVE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CONTEXT OF C.G. JUNG’S THEORY." PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND LAW REVIEW, no. 1 (March 30, 2023): 87–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.36690/2674-5216-2023-1-87.
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The topic of love, despite the rich phenomenology of this phenomenon, is poorly studied. This article examines only one aspect of the concept of love, namely love between a man and a woman. An attempt is made to explain this phenomenon from the standpoint of the theory of C.G. Jung who believed that the base of the human psyche was a subconscious mind that consisted of archetypes. Archetypes are the most ancient representations of the most significant phenomena of the external and internal world. The article summarises scientific data, descriptions of the phenomenon of love in fictional literature and simple analysis of life experiences such as my own, as well as other people’s. The hypothesis about the psychological mechanisms of the emergence of love between a man and a woman is substantiated. The proposed hypothesis is based on the theory of C.G. Jung about archetypes as unconscious contents of the human psyche. In order to substantiate this hypothesis, works of fiction are considered, examples from the practice of psychologists and the personal life of people are given. As a result, conclusions were drawn that the source of love is not outside, but inside a person, the need to love is inherent to one degree or another in every person (and, probably, in every living being); the trigger that starts the processes of falling in love are certain events that find an emotional response in a person who is psychologically ready for a relationship of love; the projection (transfer, in Jung's words) of the content of the corresponding archetype onto another person is often carried out unconsciously and leads to disappointment in love relationships. Separately, cases of a person's awareness of their gender as not coinciding with the biological characteristics of sex are considered. It can be assumed that intersex variations are echoes of the distant past, a regression to that period of evolutionary development, when hermaphroditism was observed in creatures preceding the appearance of the species homo sapiens. It is no coincidence that C.G. Jung, an adherent of the idea of evolutionary-biological and socio-historical development of mankind, considers the archetype of “love” as consisting of two “halves” - Anima (feminine) and Animus (masculine), - and available both in men and in women. But at the biopsychological level, hermaphroditism makes itself felt: in women, along with the feminine, the masculine principle is archetypally represented, and in men, along with the masculine, the feminine. In love, the archetypal components of gender are actualized in men and women in different ways: in cases of uncomplicated (“traditional”) gender identification, the Animus (her idea-image of a Man) is activated in a woman, and in men - Anima (his idea-image of a Woman), but with all possible individual differences.
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Bonnevier, Jenny. "In the Womb of Utopia: Feminist Science Fiction, Reproductive Technology, and the Future." American Studies in Scandinavia 55, no. 1 (May 10, 2023): 70–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v55i1.6858.
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This article explores the ways in which reproductive technology is used as a literary trope to enable or embody adesired social order in a utopian setting. It discusses Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and “Coming of Age in Karhide” (1995), Joanna Russ’ The Female Man (1975), and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). In these American classics of feminist science fiction, reproduction is a key element, and they are rooted in a feminist understanding of power that sees the organization of both reproductive and child-care labor as central to analyses of patriarchy, as well as to any attempts to re-imagine patriarchal structures. The analysis draws on critical kinship studies that see the forming of kinship and families as a form of “cultural technology” and which thus opens these relationships to critical examination. It explores how the kind of change reproductive technologies can effect is not a property simply inherent in the technologiesthemselves. Rather, these medical technologies intersect with and become part of pre-existing cultural technologies of family and gender. Finally, the article addresses the question of how feminist futurities or feminist conceptions of time can be mobilized to enable resistance and change.
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Sharma, Urmila, and J. K. Sharma. "Hollowness of life in A Himalayan Love Story." VEETHIKA-An International Interdisciplinary Research Journal 9, no. 1 (March 24, 2023): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.48001/veethika.2023.09.01.004.
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Namita Gokhale has contributed for the upliftment of human life. Through her pen, she has diagnosed the problems of contemporary society which are the result of degradation of human values. Today man and woman both are economically and socially sound but moral degradation has shattered the real motive of life. The objective of this paper is to explore the fact that moral values are not the fetters of life but they give rise to those dimensions which take life to a new height. Parvati's life exhibits the negative aspects of hollowness. How the emptiness made Parvati 's normal life to embark upon the wrong track. At an early age a child imbibes only humane aspects but as he grows, his surroundings inculcate in him the selfish motives. Parvati was also an innocent child who used to build the palace from pine cones. For imbibing desirable and undesirable habits, the family and society both are equally responsible. Here, the aim of Namita Gokhale is not to tell a fiction just for entertainment. The novel motivates us to think the value of true relationships which is hidden inside the story. The novel expounds the significance of emotions, sentiments and values in life. Namita Gokhale has tried to assure her readers that materialistic world is not the goal of life. Man is born with a definite purpose and to get it, he has to think beyond the worldly attachment and illusions.
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Sharma, Ms Shikha. "Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 7 (July 27, 2020): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10673.
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Doris Lessing, the Nobel Laureate (1919-2007), a British novelist, poet, a writer of epic scope, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was the “most fearless woman novelist in the world, unabashed ex-communist and uncompromising feminist”. Doris has earned the great reputation as a distinguished and outstanding writer. She raised local and private problems of England in post-war period with emphasis on man-woman relationship, feminist movement, welfare state, socio-economic and political ethos, population explosion, terrorism and social conflicts in her novels.
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Batarina, A. E. "The Reception of Chess in the Soviet Films of the 1970s–1980s." Art & Culture Studies, no. 2 (June 2022): 340–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2022-2-340-365.
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In this article, the author analyzes the image of chess in the Soviet films of the 1970s–1980s. The relevance of the topic is associated with the renewed interest in chess and its history in modern films and television series. The author focuses on the Soviet back story of films about chess players, which until recently remained on the periphery of research. The subject of the article is the reception of chess in three Soviet films of the selected period: Grandmaster, White Snow of Russia, and Capablanca. The choice of the films under analysis was motivated by their thematic unity, which consists in translating the image of chess not as a game, leisure activity, or a way of communication but as a sport. The novelty of the research lies in studying insufficiently explored material, comparing the film plot with historical events, and identifying conceptual patterns of how a personality is perceived in late Soviet art. The main characters of the films are professional chess players, two of them based on real people. The film Grandmaster depicts an image of a Soviet intellectual who finds a game of chess to be a form of self-reflection. White Snow of Russia is based on the facts from the life of the chess player Alexander Alekhine. As presented in the film, for the protagonist chess is a vocation and the only suitable mode of existence. Although the narrative is centered around the political aspects of Alexander Alekhine’s biography, he is portrayed as a typical character of late Soviet cinema, involved in a personal conflict. The third film is a biographical melodrama about the idealized historical figure of the Cuban chess player José Raúl Capablanca, which presents a mixture of real historical facts and fiction. In all three films, the filmmakers focus on the international sport of chess, which appears to be inseparable from politics. In Capablanca, the political theme is the least developed one, but it is still important for the plot. Through the analysis of the semantic layers and expressive means of the films, the author of the article points out specific features of the presentation of chess in the Soviet screen culture. This allows identifying three different patterns of the development of the image of chess: a way of self-knowledge and self-development for the character, a sport for the intelligentsia based on the triumph of reason, and an allegory of love relationships between a man and a woman.
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Okereke, Emmanuel. "Female 'Weight' in the Nigerian Fiction: Iyayi's ‘Violence’ and Ibezute's ‘Dance of Horror’." English Studies at NBU 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 61–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.18.1.5.
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This article is a masculinist examination of Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Chukwuma Ibezute’s Dance of Horror. The article despises the ideological stance of some feminists – that women are unfairly treated in society and in literature by men. It explores women’s relationship with men and contends that every woman is in control of her man and society around her. The article shows how women use marriage, love, sex, their body, social status, kitchen and cradle influence to hold men to ransom. The article, however, recommends that men should not act on their women’s unverifiable and manipulative claims. In all, the article concludes that women are oppressive and exploitative to men.
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Nilofar, Naila. "Ajaran Islam dalam Ayat-Ayat Cinta Karya Habiburrahman El Shirazy." ATAVISME 12, no. 1 (June 30, 2009): 97–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.24257/atavisme.v12i1.161.97-103.
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Novel, sebagai bagian dari fiksi, memiliki dua fungsi, yaitu bermanfaat dan menghibur. Habiburrahman El-Shirazy mengekspresikan pandangannya mengenai ajaran Islam melalui novel Ayat-Ayat Cinta (AAC). Dalam novel tersebut, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy menunjukkan pada pembaca bagaimana berhubungan dengan orang lain: muslim atau bukan, orang tua, tamu, dan hubungan antara pria dan wanita. Dia juga menunjukkan ajaran Islam lainnya, seperti pernikahan, etika berpakaian, dan mandi. Dia mengekspresikan pandangannya tentang ajaran Islam berdasarkan Alquran dan Hadis.
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Novel as a part of fiction that tells story, has two functions. They are entertainment and esthetics functions. Habiburrahman El-Shirazy expresses his view about Islamic teachings through novel Ayat-Ayat Cinta (AAC). In the novel AAC, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy shows readers how to make relationship with other people: moslems or not, older people, a guest, and a relationship between man and woman. He also shows the readers about other Islamic teachings such as marrital, dressing up and bathing ethics. He expressed his view about Islamic teachings based on Alquran and Hadis.
Keywords: novel, esthetic functions, Islamic teachings
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Frank, Søren, and Marlene Marcussen. "Jonas Lie mellem det maritime og det hjemlige." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 42, no. 118 (December 30, 2014): 205–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v42i118.19845.
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The Norwegian author Jonas Lie is best known as a writer of domestic fiction depicting the Norwegian society through the perspective of marriage and the family. Through readings of Lodsen og hans hustru, Rutland and Gaa Paa!, this article challenges this view by emphasizing the maritime dimension of Lie’s work. A place-phenomenological method based on the writings of Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Robert Pogue Harrison allows for a focus on specific place relations in the novels such as the shore, the house, and the ship. Consequently, Lie’s novels establish a convergence between two opposite, yet mutually dependent movements – an “oceanization of the domestic” and a “domestication of the maritime” – as they portray compromises between ocean and land, man and woman. As a result, Lie is not only revealed to be a modern writer, more so in some ways than Ibsen, but also a writer who takes more radical (perhaps even specific Nordic) steps in the relationship between land, ocean, and the sexes than more internationally renowned authors of the sea such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Man-woman relationships – Fiction"
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Baker, Travis G. "Clara-An Elsewhere." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BakerTG2006.pdf.
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Lancaster, Daniel Foertsch Jacqueline. "A futile quest for a sustainable relationship in Welty's short fiction." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3652.
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Lancaster, Daniel. "A Futile Quest for a Sustainable Relationship in Welty's Short Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3652/.
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Eudora Welty is an author concerned with relationships between human beings. Throughout A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Golden Apples, Welty's characters search for ways in which to establish and sustain viable bonds. Particularly problematic are the relationships between opposite sexes. I argue that Welty uses communication as a tool for sustaining a relationship in her early work. I further argue that when her stories provide mostly negative outcomes, Welty moves on to a illuminate the possibility and subsequent failure of relationships via innocence in the natural world. Finally, Welty explores, through her characters, the attempt at marginalization and the quest for relationships outside the culture of the South.
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Larbalestier, Justine. "The battle of the sexes in science fiction from the pulps to the James Tiptree, Jr. memorial award /." Connect to full text, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/401.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1997.Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 15, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 1997; thesis submitted 1996. Includes: The James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award list. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.
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Cheong, Weng Lam. "Beyond a feminist dystopia : Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456330.
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Gore, Ashley N. "Being the Beautiful Fool." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1283.
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Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other” (305). With that, I created a collection of short stories that analyzes my generation of women’s struggles. Framing the thesis are two stories involving three women, Lindsey, Jenny, and Sarah, “The Generation of Discontent” and “Revisions,” with the characters attempting to sort through love, success, and happiness in society. The piece “The Bachelor” has Amanda torn between her currently successful life and the glamour and sometimes infamy of being on ABC’s reality show The Bachelor. In “Eggs Kennedy Style,” the fine line between delusion and dreams becomes defined in both Nan and Kelley of being one of America’s royal Kennedy family. “Cops and Robbers” shows the inner turmoil of women who do not aspire to be mothers and feel guilty for their aspirations as well asthe resulting resentment when they have to give up their dreams. The ideas of taking your loved one for granted and life goals become the driving aspect of “Flat Tire” where story picks up in the middle of major fight between Nicole and Tommy stemming from him dropping the garter the night before at their friend’s wedding. “Almond Blossoms” between a flashback to Amsterdam with Sam’s Dutch fling Andric and present time suburban Ohio with her finance Kevin showing the conflict of being single compared to being settled. As Fitzgerald said, “An author ought to write for his generation” (ix) and I wrote based on my personal experiences as well as my friends’ tales and tribulations that tell of our generation’s struggle. Giving a voice to the high hopes and resulting discontent I feel is important which models the Modern writers like Fitzgerald’s Gatsby’s green lighted hope for Daisy. I hope to revive a bit of that Modern era in my time though our green light just might be the glow of The Bachelor from the television.
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McCaffrey, Molly Ann. "Heaven and Earth a collection of short stories /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1116245589.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.Committee/Advisors: Brock Clarke, James Schiff, Michael Griffith. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed May 20, 2008). Keywords: Short stories; Fiction; American; Women authors; Class; Race; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Sandoval, Tatiana Moura. "Queer couples in straight America: a study of representations of straight woman/gay man relationships in A home at the end of the world and Will & Grace." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1066.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e TecnológicoEste trabalho tem como propósito estudar a queerness de relacionamentos entre mulheres heterossexuais e homens gays no romance A Home at the End of the World, de Michael Cunningham, e no seriado de televisão Will & Grace. O objetivo é analisar tais relacionamentos do ponto de vista das personagens femininas principais Clare e Grace, respectivamente , comparando e contrastando os textos literário e televisual. A dissertação fundamenta-se nos conceitos teórico-metodológicos da teoria queer, nos quais se baseia a análise das personagens e de seus relacionamentos. Contudo, à medida que estabelece um diálogo entre um romance e um programa televisual, foi adicionado um capítulo sobre teoria da televisão. Além de fornecer uma visão geral sobre tal teoria, o capítulo mostrou-se relevante na discussão de Will & Grace. Por meio do estudo mais aprofundado da teoria queer percebe-se que queerness, ao invés de uma identidade fixa, pode ser mais bem compreendida como uma atitude de resistência às normas sociais heteropatriarcais. Portanto, apesar das aspirações convencionais de Grace e Clare, ambas agem de forma queer em várias situações, provando que queerness é um posicionamento que todos podem assumir; até mesmo os heterossexuais
The purpose of this work is to study the queerness of relationships between straight women and gay men in Michael Cunninghams novel A Home at the End of the World and in the TV sitcom Will & Grace. The intention is to analyze such relationships from the point-of-view of the main female characters Clare and Grace, respectively , comparing and contrasting the literary and televisual texts. The theoretical-methodological core of this thesis lies on the concepts of queer theory, based on which the characters and their relationships have been analyzed. However, as it establishes a dialog between a literary work and a TV show, a theoretical chapter on television theory has been added. While providing an overview of television theory, this chapter has also been really relevant in the discussion of Will & Grace. Through a deeper study of queer theory, one realizes that queerness, instead of a fixed identity, may be better understood as an attitude of resistance to heteropatriarchal social rules. Therefore, in spite of Graces and Clares conventional aspirations, they both act queerly in several situations, proving that queerness is a positionality which everyone may assume; even straight people
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Tam, Ieok Lin. "A comparative study of three Chinese translations of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2554092.
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Ailwood, Sarah Louise. ""What men ought to be" masculinities in Jane Austen's novels /." Access electronically, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/124.
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Landis, James David. Lying in bed: A novel. Chapel Hill, N.C: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995.
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Jones, Gwyneth. "Aliens in the Fourth Dimension." In Deconstructing the Starships, 108–20. Liverpool University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780853237839.003.0009.
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‘Aliens in the Fourth Dimension’ was originally read at a conference on Speaking Science Fiction, held at the University of Liverpool in July 1996. It is the last in the ‘Science, Fiction and Reality’ section of the book. The chapter deals with the various models of alien stories found in science fiction, and looks at the ways in which language, gender and morality are treated. Jones makes parallels from alien invasion in science fiction to the world’s history of colonisation, and places focus on the relationship between man and woman within that process of colonising. She concludes by describing her own decisions and techniques used when writing her alien stories, The Aleutian Trilogy.
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Carroll, Rachel. "Two Beings/One Body: Intersex Lives and Transsexual Narratives in Man into Woman (1931) and David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl (2000)." In Transgender and The Literary Imagination, 125–57. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414661.003.0005.
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This chapter examines David Ebershoff’s novel The Danish Girl, a historical fiction based on the life of Lili Elbe (1882–1931), reputed to be one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment treatment. Genres of life writing have played a prominent role in the representation of transgender lives; the relationship between historical record, autobiography and historical fiction is complicated by the possibility that Elbe may have been an intersex person. This chapter examines the extent to which conventions of transsexual life writing obscure narratives of intersex existence, investigating the novel’s relationship to a formative source text, a generically hybrid auto/biography. The implications of the novel’s reliance on the binary categories of identity prevalent in Man into Woman will be explored in relation to categories of sex, gender (especially femininity) and sexuality (specifically male homosexuality).