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Sansonetti, Annie. "Black Trans Girlhood, Healing, and Transformative Justice in Akwaeke Emezi's PET." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 9, no. 3 (2022): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0035.

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Abstract In the fantasy/speculative fiction young adult novel PET (2019), Akwaeke Emezi's fifteen-year-old Black trans girl protagonist, Jam, disrupts the traditional socio-cultural and medico-legal hindrances to Black trans girlhood's “liveness” by actively devising and participating in carefully staged scenes of intracommunal healing and transformative justice. With Jam's knowledge, history, and experience among Black people and community as a guiding light, this article argues that PET serves as a counternarrative to the erasure of Black trans girls in the Black radical tradition and inspir

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Rao, Naveen. "Turtlegoose Sazerac." World Futures Review 13, no. 2 (2021): 131–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19467567211025764.

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A short story exploring the unthought futures of public health in America, Turtlegoose Sazerac introduces a young trans protagonist, Cayce, who has arrived at a career crossroads following a deadly massacre of a homeless encampment near their home in Oakland, California. Seeking advice from a past mentor, Victor, Cayce faces an uncertain path filled with digital, physical, and metaphysical challenges on their quest toward a career with impact.

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Brewer, William D. "Mary Robinson’s Walsingham: Self-Monsterization, Gender Nonconformity, and Sexual (Dis)orientation." Gothic Studies 25, no. 2 (2023): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2023.0164.

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This essay argues that Mary Robinson’s subversion of gender in her Gothic novel Walsingham (1797) is more radical than critics have suggested. I offer a trans reading of Walsingham that focuses on the evolution of Sir Sidney Aubrey’s nonnormative gender identity and behavior. Along with emphasizing transformation and embodiment, trans theory disrupts essentializing categories such as male, female, heterosexual, gay, and lesbian. It thus provides a useful lens through which to examine Walsingham, in which Sidney and the title character transition from one identity to another. I examine the tran

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Bodnaruk, Mariana. "Intersecting Inequalities: The Representation of Religious, Gender, and Sexual Identities in the Life of Pelagia." Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu 13, no. 3 (2021): 419–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0041.

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Abstract Repentant harlots who became trans saints presented Byzantine hagiographers with a challenge. Thought to exhibit a lack of self-control and the excessive sexuality, associated with women, and sex workers in particular, – a subject of great concern for monastic authors – how could members of this stigmatized group achieve the standards of Christian piety, let alone saintly behavior? In portraying its fictional protagonist as an exemplum of masculine virtues in the context of nascent Palestinian monasticism, the anonymous Life of Pelagia highlights the non-binariness of social identitie

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Fazel, Asadi Amjad Sarmad Abdalrazag Albusalih. "The Question of Hybridity and the Possibility of Retaining Islamic Identity in Leila Aboulela'sThe Translator." Multicultural Education 7, no. 3 (2021): 30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4569126.

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<em>This article is an attempt to analyze the possibility of retaining one's Islamic identity within a postcolonial context in Leila Aboulela'sThe Translator. Set in Europe with a Muslim woman as its protagonist, The Translator is a potentially viable literary work to be approached from a postcolonial viewpoint. Sammar, a Sudanese widow who works as an Arabic translator for a Scottish Oriental scholar, with whom she later falls in love, is caught at a trans-cultural juncture, finding herself between the Orient and the Occident. This article is an attempt to investigate the cultural- an

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Smith, Felicity. "Unearthing crypts and blurring borders in Anna Burns' «Milkman»." Esferas Literarias, no. 5 (December 14, 2022): 129–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/elrl.vi5.15178.

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Drawing primarily on the work of Derrida, this paper provides an analysis of Belfast writer Anna Burns’ award-winning novel Milkman (2018) from the perspectives of secrecy, hauntology and the crypt, with the aim of offering new insights into the ungraspable haunting effects of trans-generational trauma. Two literary applications of the crypt are studied: a severed cat’s head found by the protagonist in the so called ‘ten-minute area’, and cryptic letters stuffed inside an old ragdoll and hidden in plain sight. I propose that the speculative conclusions reached as a result of this study not onl

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Kaiura, Leslie Maxwell. "Femicide, Gender Identity, and the Limits of Feminist Solidarity in Claudia Piñeiro's Tuya and El Tiempo De Las Moscas." Latin Americanist 69, no. 1 (2025): 87–106. https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2025.a957173.

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Abstract: Argentine author Claudia Piñeiro's 2022 novel El tiempo de las moscas revisits Inés, the protagonist of Tuya (2005), sixteen years after she murdered her husband's lover. Using a women's chorus inspired by Medea to comment on the action, the novel explores the varieties of women's experiences and feminist thought, focusing on motherhood and relationships between women. It raises questions such as whether women can commit femicide, whether giving birth makes women mothers forever, and whether trans individuals belong in the feminist movement. This study analyzes themes of identity in

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Joh, Yoon Seung. "The Concepts of Human-Beings and the Axiology of Beyond-Borders in the Book of Change in terms of Post-Humanism." JOURNAL OF ASIAN PHILOSOPHY IN KOREA 57 (July 30, 2022): 137–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.19065/japk.2022.7.57.137.

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This essay is focused on the necessity of redefining the concepts of human beings to coexist in harmony with life-community in the Post-Corona age. The point is to explicate how the concepts of human beings in the Book of Changes provide implications for posthumanism from the viewpoint of beyond-borders through the Change-Penetrating view. Its mechanism connotatively implies the aspect of the reality of balance and changes in the world in the Book of Changes. In the Change-Penetrating view, the category of Yin and Yang, revealing the way of trans-boundaries through robustness and stillness, ca

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Schaal, Michèle A. "A Neopicaresque Journey into Queer and Sex-Positivity: Wendy Delorme's Quatrième génération." Nottingham French Studies 60, no. 1 (2021): 80–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2021.0306.

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Scholars have hailed Wendy Delorme's first novel, Quatrième génération (Grasset, 2007), and subsequent narratives as pioneering for their introduction of Queer Studies, gender performativity, sex-positive feminism, genderqueer and trans* identities to a mainstream French audience. Researchers have, however, and thus far, rarely focused on the more literary aspects of Delorme's books. This article suggests that Quatrième génération also constitutes a neopicaresque narrative since Delorme takes both her protagonist, Marion, and her readers on a literal and metaphorical learning journey through q

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Ang, Ann. "Mobility as Memory: Refiguring Temporal and Spatial Mobility in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9, no. 1 (2022): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2021.34.

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This article discusses the operation of memory as an effect of narrative structure in The Gift of Rain, with a particular focus on the spatial and temporal mobility of narratorial perspective. Tan’s novel is situated within Malaysian writing in English, a body of minor literature in a minority language amid the country’s promotion of Bahasa as the linguistic medium for a national literature, alongside the attendant racialization of language. However, the status of The Gift of Rain as a world Anglophone novel, which circulates transnationally while depicting trans-temporal and cross-spatial tra

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Villela, Lucinéa Marcelino, and Gonzalo Iturregui-Gallardo. "AUDIO DESCRIPTION AND DIVERSITY AWARENESS: FLUTUA MUSIC VIDEO." Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada 59, no. 2 (2020): 1513–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/010318137470211520200702.

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ABSTRACT Brazil has the highest murder rate of transgender people in the world. The paper will focus on a debate of how audio description of some audiovisual products should be used to call the attention to the discrimination and violence suffered by homosexual couples. We have chosen a Brazilian music video called Flutua produced and performed by Johnny Hooker with special participation of the Brazilian singer Liniker, a black trans woman. The clip presents an outstanding visual narrative involving contemporary themes such as gays with disability, gender-fluid and homophobia. During the video

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Siqueira, Juliana Mota de, Ana Paula Dal’Asta, Silvana Amaral, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada, and Antônio Miguel V. Monteiro. "The Middle and Lower Xingu: the response to the crystallization of different temporalities in the production of regional space." Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais 19, no. 1 (2017): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.2017v19n1p148.

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While the region of the Middle and Lower Xingu has been a protagonist during many episodes of Brazilian history, it remains unknown to a large cross-section of society. Within this perspective, we have revealed some of the different elements responsible for the production of regional space by joining theoretical exercise with empirical, which signifies combining some of the knowledge that has been produced on the region with the discourse of some of the different agents involved in its transformation. Accordingly, the following processes were adopted as markers: colonization, the opening of th

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Aftab, Aqdas. "Transqueer Negotiations and Decolonial Space-Making in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions." ariel: A Review of International English Literature 55, no. 1 (2024): 105–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2024.a915995.

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Abstract: This article intervenes in the long critical reception of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions as a postcolonial feminist novel by using a decolonial framework—one that is attuned to the history of how the cisgender heterosexual gender binary constructs patriarchy—to propose a transqueer reading of the novel. A transqueer hermeneutic serves two functions in this article: first, it foregrounds the centrality of movement in the prefix “trans”; and, second, it emphasizes how this movement queerly manipulates gender and sexual normativity. A transqueer reading of Dangarembga’s novel p

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Austen, Veronica. "The Edible I in Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy." Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies 14 (January 21, 2025): 145–61. https://doi.org/10.14201/cand.v14i145-161.

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This article explores Kim Fu’s 2014 For Today I Am a Boy through the lens of critical eating studies. In this novel’s portrayal of Peter (see note 3), the trans woman protagonist, images of food and acts of eating (or the denial of these acts) are deployed as a meditation on the navigation of body, hence of self. This paper positions the act of eating as representing more than just a physical, biological process, but rather a placing of people in relationship with the edible matter and all the conditions of its production, including its socio-cultural/familial meanings. In interpreting Peter’s

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Wardi, Anissa, and Katherine Wardi-Zonna. "Mothers and Daughters, Trauma and Textile in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 43, no. 2 (2024): 239–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2024.a952297.

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ABSTRACT: This paper considers Phyllis Alesia Perry’s use of art therapy as a modality of healing in Stigmata , a novel that examines intergenerational trauma resulting from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The protagonist, Lizzie, is not merely beset with visions of her foremothers’ pain but shares consciousness with her grandmother and great-great-grandmother. As a result of episodes in which Lizzie experiences the trauma of her ancestors’ lives, she is tormented, both in body and spirit. Her brutalized body bears witness to the wounds of history that have yet to be healed. This essay examine

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García, Verónica Pérez. "Speculative Transecology and Caribbean Space-Time: Queer Relationalities in Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunlé." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 28, no. 1 (2024): 95–111. https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2024.a954143.

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Abstract: This article engages transecology and its inherent anticolonial affinities to read Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunlé (translated by Achy Obejas as Tentacle in 2018), a Dominican novella that centers alternative relationalities through queerness, speculation, and spatio-temporal nonlinearity. Acilde, La mucama 's protagonist, is a trans person who becomes entangled in a prophecy conceived by syncretic Caribbean spirituality. Acilde embodies time-defying subjectivities to save the Caribbean from environmental devastation. Drawing from scholarship on decolonized human/nature relation

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Hall, Chris. "Scarred Flesh and the X of Law." TSQ 10, no. 3-4 (2023): 410–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-10900928.

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Abstract This essay responds to and expands the concept of the X for trans studies, theorized by Marquis Bey, as a graphic tool for thinking the intersection of gender, race, law, and crime. In doing so, the essay reads Howard Hawks's 1932 film Scarface, a work crossed throughout by the symbology of the X. Rather than providing a simple visual cue for death and closure, the X is vitalized, through a reading of Bey and Scarface together, as the (un)graphing of law that both inscribes and defaces the biopolitical state, which predicates itself on legislating the difference between genders, races

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CHRISTOPHER, ADETUYI AJIBADE, and ADEOLA ADENIRAN. "Gender Frustration in the African Novel: Matters Arising." GVU Journal of Language, Literature and African Studies 1, no. 1 (2023): 56–67. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8025642.

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In many countries of the world especially in Africa, men have enjoyed patriarchal domination over their female counterparts. This subjugated position women are expected to maintain is reflected in the character representation of women in some male-authored African novels. In recent times however, the focus is gradually shifting from inter-gender conflict to intra-gender conflict as well as trans-sexualism in the African novel. This aspect of gender discourse has not enjoyed adequate scholarly attention. Womanism, Marxist Feminism and Intertextuality are adopted as the theoretical framework of

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Macheso, Wesley Paul. "Queering Tropical African Heteronormativity through Spirit Worlds: Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 23, no. 1 (2024): 197–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.23.1.2024.4080.

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This article analyzes how contemporary queer African writing participates in decoloniality by queering (hetero)normative knowledge systems for social and epistemic transformation. In my reading of Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), I argue that Trans/Queer African literature participates in a very important epistemic project of counterfactualism by offering alternatives to perceived and systemically imposed African gender and sexual realities. The novel achieves this by deconstructing the hetero-naturalization of temporality to locate queer time and queer space within indigenous Af

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Manarina Sabila, Putri, Supiastutik Supiastutik, L. Dyah Purwita Wardani SWW, and Dina Dyah Kusumayanti. "Representation of Sexual Identity Struggle in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe." JET ADI BUANA 7, no. 02 (2022): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.36456/jet.v7.n02.2022.6277.

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This paper discusses the journey of finding sexual identity in the novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. The analysis focuses on the effort of finding the sexual identity. The struggles before and after coming out are represented in the novel, as well as the critical position of the author. Stuart Hall's representation theory was used as a qualitative approach to analysis. The data of this study were obtained from words, phrases and sentences related to the phenomenon of gay and trans-gender in the selected novels. People are still uncomfortable with the behavior of t

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Lewis, Evie. "‘A becoming of winged creatures’: Unruly Bodies and Hidden Transcripts in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night." Comparative Critical Studies 22, no. 2 (2025): 193–211. https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2025.0562.

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This article uses Jack Halberstam’s notions of ‘hidden transcripts’ and ‘failure’ as a starting point for analysing Zeyn Joukhadar’s novel The Thirty Names of Night (2020). The ‘hidden transcripts’ – diaries, sketchbooks and journals that are unearthed throughout the novel – form a spectral archive that queers the history of migration to New York City, and functions as an enduring alternative to the conscription of queer migrant lives at the hands of the contemporary nation-state. Through the racialized and queer bodies in his novel, Joukhadar articulates the experience of trying to account fo

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Szymonek, Paulina. "Wolves in the City of Domesticated Women: The Queer Wild of Olivia Rosenthal." New Horizons in English Studies 6 (October 10, 2021): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/nh.2021.6.51-62.

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In 2009, in the city of Nantes, a pack of six wolves was released in a public park as part of Stéphane Thidet’s art installation. A book of short stories accompanied the event. One of the authors involved was Olivia Rosenthal, who then incorporated her story into the novel Que font les rennes après Noël? (2010), in which captive wolves are reintroduced to the city. In this post-natural environment, animals provide a semblance of the wilderness for residents, yet remain enclosed in an extended zoo designed by man – an act that domesticates both sides of the fence by separating humans from wolve

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Shibarshina, Svetlana Viktorovna. "“The Transhumanist Wager” as an offer you cannot refuse." Digital Scholar: Philosopher`s Lab 4, no. 4 (2021): 69–82. https://doi.org/10.32326/2618-9267-2021-4-4-69-82.

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The article examines a few features of scien-tific utopias and their historical transformation in today’s techno-utopias on the example of Z. Istvan’s novel ‘The Transhumanist Wager’. The study elucidates some particular traits of F. Bacon's project – a significant pioneer in this respect – and peculiarizes it among other mer-itocratic utopias. On the one hand, the author accentuates the differentiation between the truths of religion and the truths of science in Bacon’s ‘New Atlantis’, and, on the other hand, she emphasizes the harmonious combi-nation of the religious, spiritual and scientific

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Sõrmus, Maris. "Naturalcultural Hybridity and Becoming: Andrus Kivirähk’s The Man Who Spoke Snakish in a Material Ecocritical Perspective // Hibridismo naturocultural y transformación: The Man Who Spoke Snakish desde la ecocrítica material." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 6, no. 1 (2015): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2015.6.1.637.

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The article takes a material ecocritical view on contemporary Estonian literature—Andrus Kivirähk’s The Man Who Spoke Snakish. The canonical novel, which focuses on the forest life being replaced with village life as well as the extinction of snakish, or, snake language, has importantly been classified as “the first Estonian eco-novel” (Hasselblatt 1262). In this light, I discuss the ways that nature emerges in new materialist terms as a subject, tangled with culture, challenging normative understandings of humanity. Particularly interesting is the fluid border of nature and culture, which sug

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Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa. "Organic Vehicles and Passengers." Transfers 6, no. 2 (2016): 74–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2016.060206.

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What if the protagonist in mobility was not human or technology, but nature? What kind of mobility studies might we get? This is the focus of this story of the tsetse fly, set within the history of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia from 1910 to 1973. This insect feeds on the blood of anything it can bite. Thus when it bites into wild animals to draw blood (its food), it ingests a protozoan called the trypanosome, and when afterward the insect bites into and draws blood from livestock, it inoculates the animal with the deadly parasite it has drawn from the wild animal. The tsetse fly cann

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Mrozewicz, Anna Estera. "A shimmering movement: Ali Abbasi’s Border as a trans* posthumanist post-celluloid adaptation." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 11, no. 1 (2021): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jsca_00035_1.

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Gräns (Border) (2018) is an adaptation of a short story by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist (2006). The film retains large parts of the literary plot as well as its focalization through the troll-protagonist Tina/Reva. At the same time, Border introduces significant modifications. I argue that by expanding the plot to include a number of new elements and amplifying Lindqvist’s strategy of ‘a shimmering movement’, including the experience of transness and identity as change, Abbasi’s film disrupts more forcefully our ideas about the human/nonhuman divide, sex and gender dualism, aesthetics,

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Nizam, Hamalna. "Sartorial Objects, Transgender Bodies and Destabilized Meaning: A Study of Kaushik Ganguly’s Nagarkirtan." Spectrum, November 17, 2022, 195–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/spectrum.v16i100.61078.

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Kaushik Ganguly’s 2017 film Nagarkirtan narrates the story of Puti, a transgender belonging to a hijra group in Kolkata, who desires for a gender reconfirmation surgery. Puti’s sartorial choices help her construct or emulate the appearance of a body she longs for but cannot avail due to her poor financial condition. On one hand, her sartorial choices help her to express her felt gender; on the other hand, it betrays her by either limiting her identity or giving out misinformation about the body that lies beneath. The paper uses Butler’s idea of impermanence of meaning behind signs and Halberst

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Bedford, Alison, Annette Brömdal, Martin Kerby, and Margaret Baguley. "Just How Radical Is Radical: Children’s Picture Books and Trans Youth." Children's Literature in Education, July 1, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09537-9.

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AbstractThis paper analyses the Australian children’s picture books The Gender Fairy, by Jo Hirst and Libby Wirt, and Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship, by Jess Walton and Dougal MacPherson. Both are examples of a rare engagement by Australian children’s authors and illustrators; indeed, Hirst has the distinction of being the first Australian author of a picture book with a trans protagonist. The authors and illustrators engage with trans issues within a socio-political context that continues to problematise gender identity, particularly when it pertains to young ch

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Popoola, Olumide. "“Do you need some more explanation?” Practice-led research and the novel Fishing for Naija." Writing in Practice 2 (February 11, 2016). https://doi.org/10.62959/wip-03-2016-01.

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This article discusses a practice-led PhD in creative writing that comprises a novel and critical reflection. Border-crossing, borrowed from Gloria Anzaldúa’s book Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), forms the overarching keyword and central tool to contextually tie together theoretical research and practical investigations around language, voice, character development and plot. In the novel, questions of positioning and representation are answered for the protagonist Karl, a young trans* person. We witness Karl and his best friend Abu’s coming of age, and explorations of gender, against the backd

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Af BURÉN, ANN. "Especially Loved by Allah: Muslim and LGBTQ in Istanbul." Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 47, no. 1 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.33356/temenos.4617.

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The article builds on ethnographic fieldwork within the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer) milieu of Istanbul. It is based on material collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with people who at the same time selfidentify as practicing Muslims and have romantic and sexual relations with people of their own sex. The protagonist of the article is a pious Muslim woman who can be placed in the category of LGBTQ Muslims who do not seek coherence and are not involved in a reinterpretation of their Islamic tradition. The article explores the complex ways i

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Rutherford, Leonie, Katya Johanson, and Bronwyn Reddan. "#Ownvoices, Disruptive Platforms, and Reader Reception in Young Adult Publishing." Publishing Research Quarterly, July 14, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12109-022-09901-5.

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AbstractThe concept of #ownvoices writing has gained traction in contemporary publishing as both a genre of reader interest and a focus for debates about authors’ rights to write cross-culturally. This paper examines tensions the #ownvoices movement reveals between the commissioning, publishing, and critical reception of a book, using debate about Craig Silvey’s Honeybee, an Australian novel focalized through a young trans protagonist but written by a straight male author. Drawing on the theory of recognition, it analyzes author and publisher media interviews, social media, and literary review

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Pahl, Katrin. "Blood Run Beech Read: Human–Plant Grafting in Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch." Open Cultural Studies 8, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2024-0030.

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Abstract This article discusses human–vegetal bonds in Kim de l’Horizon’s award-winning novel Blutbuch. With its transgender perspective informing the text’s botanical imaginary Blutbuch holds, the author maintains, an irreplaceable position in the ecological or phytographic literature. The autofictional tale develops a unique non-binary poetics by creatively working through the impact of individual, arbitrary, and, most importantly, structural violence in the blood family on the coming-of-age and growing-into-a-body of its first-person narrator. “Blood Run Beech Read” explores how de l’Horizo

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Marshall, Kyle. "If I Was Your Girl by M. Russo." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 7, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2mm5b.

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Russo, Meredith. If I Was Your Girl. Flatiron Books, 2016.At 18 years old, Amanda is taking a cautious approach to her new lease on life. Assigned the male gender at birth and named Andrew, Amanda endured bullying as a child and disappointment from a father who viewed his “son” as effeminate and ill-equipped to handle life’s challenges. Post-transition life in Atlanta wasn’t much easier, and a traumatic instance of violence led Amanda’s mother to decide to send Amanda to live with her father in small-town Tennessee. While the rural American South might not seem like an accepting environment fo

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Waegner, Cathy C. "“Scenes of Mockery”: Puppetry in Mohammed ben Abdallah’s The Trial of Mallam Ilya and Gerald Vizenor’s Waiting for Wovoka." European journal of American studies 20, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.4000/13qwm.

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Traditional and contemporary puppetry, vividly embraced in Mohammed ben Abdallah’s play The Trial of Mallam Ilya (1982) and Gerald Vizenor’s novel Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty (2023), provides a powerful tool to interrogate, to mock, and to combat the continued injustices facing Indigenous peoples. Notions of decolonization through trans-Indigenous juxtaposition (Chadwick Allen), productive correlation (Mita Banerjee), “spaces of co-resistance” (Rebecca Macklin), and “cross-cultural knowledge translation” (Kaiya Aboagye) are drawn on in analyzing the transculturally com

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Panasiuk, Mariia. ""Blue-Haired Antichrists and the Cult of Castration: Kai Anderson, Cyber-Incels, and the Theater of Masculine Failure (2016–2025)"." Le "Pilier Noir" Philosophique, June 2, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15578077.

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<strong>I. Introduction: The Resurrection of Kai in a Post-Trumpian Landscape</strong> Eight years after the premiere of <em>American Horror Story: Cult</em> (Murphy, 2017), its protagonist Kai Anderson reemerges not merely as a television character, but as a prophetic meme of the wounded masculine psyche in a chronically online, postlibidinal America. 2025 finds itself not only in the thick of Trump’s return but submerged in a vast pool of online radicalization, forum-driven masculinity crises, sexual-political impotence, and emo-blue-haired cultic aesthetics. Kai — once

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Benchi, Paola. "Naming the Child: Entering the Maternal Genealogy in Valeria Parrella’s Lo spazio bianco." Aigne Journal 3 (November 26, 2018). https://doi.org/10.33178/aigne.vol3.1.

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Naming is usually seen as the first action that inscribes the newborn in a patriarchal genealogy, assigning to the subject a role, a position, and an identity in the symbolic order. However, it is possible to find ruptures that allow for a different signification, shifting the emphasis towards a maternal genealogy. The passage from a paternal to a maternal genealogy offers a perspective for a reading of Valeria Parrella’s Lo spazio bianco (2008). Maria, the 42-year-old protagonist of this book, gives birth to a premature baby girl after only six months of pregnancy. The baby is put in an incub

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Deffenbacher, Kristina. "Mapping Trans-Domesticity in Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto." M/C Journal 22, no. 4 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1518.

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Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto (2005) reconceives transience and domesticity together. This queer Irish road film collapses opposition between mobility and home by uncoupling them from heteronormative structures of gender, desire, and space—male/female, public/private. The film’s protagonist, Patrick “Kitten” Braden (Cillian Murphy), wanders in search of a loved one without whom she does not feel at home. Along the way, the film exposes and exploits the doubleness of both “mobility” and “home” in the traditional road narrative, queering the conventions of the road film to convey the desire a

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Lyonhart, Jonathan, and Jennifer Matheny. "The Monstrous Other and the Biblical Narrative of Ruth." Journal of Religion & Film 24, no. 2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.24.2.003.

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Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water (2017) restages the biblical narrative of Ruth in Cold War America, crystallizing the parallel through setting numerous scenes at a local cinema that is playing The Story of Ruth (1960). The book of Ruth tells the tale of how a non-Israelite outsider could be welcomed into the kingdom of God and ultimately into the lineage of Christ. Likewise, del Toro populates his tale with multiple outsiders—multiple ‘Ruths’—including a mute woman, an African American cleaner, a Russian Communist, and an elderly homosexual male. However, these are merely reflections o

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Lord, Catherine M. "Serial Nuns: Michelle Williams Gamaker’s The Fruit Is There to Be Eaten as Serial and Trans-Serial." M/C Journal 21, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1370.

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Introduction: Serial Space“It feels …like the edge of the world; far more remote than it actually is, perhaps because it looks at such immensity” (Godden “Black,” 38). This is the priest’s warning to Sister Clodagh in Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel Black Narcissus. The young, inexperienced Clodagh leads a group of British nuns through the Indian Himalayas and onto a remote mountain top above Mopu. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger adapted Godden’s novel into the celebrated feature film, Black Narcissus (1947). Following the novel, the film narrates the nuns’ mission to establish a convent, scho

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Teggin, Edward Owen. "Space and Anxiety in the Colonial Novel: The Concepts of Sanctuary and Confinement in Burmese Days, Max Havelaar, Kim and Midnight’s Children." Scientia - The International Journal on the Liberal Arts 11, no. 1 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.57106/scientia.v11i1.7.

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This article examined the notion of colonial anxiety through the concept of space in the colonial setting, particularly through the usage of signifiers found in colonial literature. The four case studies used are Burmese Days by George Orwell, Max Havelaar by Multatuli, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. These have been investigated in terms of the supposed sanctuary and feeling of unease that the private colonial spaces they present offer to their characters. In this way, it has been argued that private colonial spaces can be discussed in terms of both positive

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Bode, Lisa. "Digital Doppelgängers." M/C Journal 8, no. 3 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2369.

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   The doppelgänger (literally ‘double-goer’) of 18th and 19th century European literature and lore is a sinister likeness that dogs and shadows a protagonist heralding their death or descent into madness – a ‘spectral presentiment of disaster’ (Schwartz 84). Recently the term ‘digital doppelgänger’ has been adopted by the English-speaking entertainment and technology press to refer to a digital image of an actor or performer; whether that image is a computer-generated wire-frame model, an amalgamation of old film footage and artistry, or a three dimensional laser scan of the

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Mesch, Claudia. "Racing Berlin." M/C Journal 3, no. 3 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1845.

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Bracketed by a quotation from famed 1950s West German soccer coach S. Herberger and the word "Ende", the running length of the 1998 film Run Lola Run, directed by Tom Tykwer, is 9 minutes short of the official duration of a soccer match. Berlin has often been represented, in visual art and in cinematic imagery, as the modern metropolis: the Expressionist and Dadaist painters, Walter Ruttmann, Fritz Lang and Rainer Werner Fassbinder all depicted it as the modernising city. Since the '60s artists have staged artworks and performances in the public space of the city which critiqued the cold war o

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Cantrell, Kate, Ariella Van Luyn, and Emma Doolan. "Wandering." M/C Journal 22, no. 4 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1598.

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Wandering is an embodied movement through a landscape, cityscape, or soundscape; it is a venture that one may undertake voluntarily or reluctantly. It is similar to wayfaring and roaming, and different to walking. As a metaphor and as a figuration of subjectivity, wandering allows for a number of non-linear engagements: loitering, overhearing, wildflowering, meandering, even time travel. When coupled with an act of memory or imagination, wandering can instigate wondering, and vice versa. It can refer to the physical movement of the body through space or the abstract wandering of the mind throu

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Culver, Carody, and Amy Vuleta. "Suspicion." M/C Journal 15, no. 1 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.460.

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The “Suspicion” issue of M/C Journal explores suspicion as both critical approach and cultural concept, inviting us to engage with its interpretive potential in a world where mistrust has become the norm. Contemporary Western culture is characterised by a climate of increased border security and surveillance, especially since 9/11. Judith Butler identifies an increase in paranoia and censorship associated with these factors, which has greatly affected freedom of speech, politics, the press, and what constitutes the public sphere. These shifts have had considerable impact on how we relate to wo

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Eubanks, Kevin P. "Becoming-Samurai." M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2643.

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   Samurai and Chinese martial arts themes inspire and permeate the uniquely philosophical lyrics and beats of Wu-Tang Clan, a New York-based hip-hop collective made popular in the mid-nineties with their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang: Return of the 36 Chambers. Original founder RZA (“Rizza”) scored his first full-length motion-picture soundtrack and made his feature film debut with Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 2000). Through a critical exploration of the film’s musical filter, it will be argued that RZA’s aesthetic vision effectively deterritorialises the

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Shiloh, Ilana. "Adaptation, Intertextuality, and the Endless Deferral of Meaning." M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2636.

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   Film adaptation is an ambiguous term, both semantically and conceptually. Among its multiple connotations, the word “adaptation” may signify an artistic composition that has been recast in a new form, an alteration in the structure or function of an organism to make it better fitted for survival, or a modification in individual or social activity in adjustment to social surroundings. What all these definitions have in common is a tacitly implied hierarchy and valorisation: they presume the existence of an origin to which the recast work of art is indebted, or of biological

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Killeen, Padraic. "Ecology, Materialism, and Transfiguration." M/C Journal 28, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3173.

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Introduction An ecologically responsive parable about biological mutation in a post-apocalyptic environment, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022) was hailed on release as a “dream-noir” (Ehrlich), a “sci-fi noir” (Oller), and a “body-noir” (“Crimes”). The use of the term ‘noir’ here is enigmatic. As is often the case, the term is deployed to address a quality that otherwise resists easy identification. Noir has, of course, acquired a multitude of connotations and aesthetic legacies over the years. As I have observed elsewhere, one of those legacies is a concern with the physicality o

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Dewsbury, John-David. "Still: 'No Man's Land' or Never Suspend the Question." M/C Journal 12, no. 1 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.134.

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“Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in. Move in. Out of. Back into. No out. No back. Only in. Stay in. On in. Still” (Beckett, Short Fiction 471). 1. Introduction – Wherefore to ‘still’?HIRST: As it is?SPOONER: As it is, yes please, absolutely as it is (Pinter, 1971-1981 77). These first lines of Harold Pinter’s play No Man’s Land are indeed the first lines: they were the first lines that came to Pinter, existing as the spark that drove the play into being. Pinter overhead the words ‘As it is’ whilst in a taxi cab and was struck

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Michael, Rose. "Out of Time: Time-Travel Tropes Write (through) Climate Change." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1603.

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“What is the point of stories in such a moment”, asks author and critic James Bradley, writing about climate extinction: Bradley emphasises that “climatologist James Hansen once said being a climate scientist was like screaming at people from behind a soundproof glass wall; being a writer concerned with these questions often feels frighteningly similar” (“Writing”). If the impact of climate change asks humans to think differently, to imagine differently, then surely writing—and reading—must change too? According to writer and geographer Samuel Miller-McDonald, “if you’re a writer, then you hav

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Higley, Sarah L. "Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG." M/C Journal 3, no. 1 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1827.

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Could we also imagine a language in which a person could write down or give vocal expression to his inner experiences -- his feelings, moods, and the rest -- for his private use? Well, can't we do so in our ordinary language? -- But that is not what I mean. The individual words of this language are to refer to what can only be known to the person speaking; to his immediate private sensations. So another person cannot understand the language. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations par. 243 I will be using 'audience' in two ways in the following essay: as a phenomenon that produces

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