Nonbinary Jane Austen

von Chris Washington

106 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century. Instead, Washington argues, Austen leverages the generic restraints of the novel to write a disguised autofiction in which Austen imagines herself as transgender and works to abolish gender exclusivity altogether. In doing so, she establishes a politics that ushers in a future beyond the cisheteronormative binary, one built on plurality and possibility.

• Reihe: Forerunners: Ideas First
• ISBN: 9781517917586
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2025
• Größe: 174 x 124 mm
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press