Trans Narrators: First-Person Form and the Gendered Body in Contemporary Literature (Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Pellegrini, Chiara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1399526944 ISBN 13: 9781399526944

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Trans Narrators examines a range of trans-authored novels, short stories and autobiographical narratives published after 2015 and develops a new methodology at the intersection of trans studies and narrative studies. The book identifies temporality, embodiment and reliability as key areas of investment for trans authors, and focuses specifically on the first-person narrator, showing how its formal characteristics impact how we understand gender and the body, the act of narrating the self, and the ability of marginalised subjects to speak and be visible. By creating a framework for reading trans narratives, this book responds to the urgency of promoting trans voices in a transnational context in which trans rights are at risk, as well as to a growing understanding of the role of narrative forms in shaping collective thought, politics and material conditions.

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About the Author

Chiara Pellegrini completed her Ph.D. at Newcastle University in 2022 and currently works as an independent researcher and as an Equity and Inclusion Adviser at Canterbury Christ Church University. She has published articles and book chapters on queer theory and film adaptation, contemporary trans memoirs and novels, queer temporalities in film and television, the body in intersex narratives, and feminism and popular culture. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Narrative entitled ‘Trans/forming Narrative Studies’ (2024).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• ISBN 10: 1399526944
• ISBN 13: 9781399526944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208