Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- 6 Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism
- 7 Transpacific Diasporas
- 8 Hemispheric Routes
- 9 Transgender and Transgenre Writing
- 10 Climate Fiction
- Part III Themes
- Further Reading
- Index
9 - Transgender and Transgenre Writing
from Part II - Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- 6 Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism
- 7 Transpacific Diasporas
- 8 Hemispheric Routes
- 9 Transgender and Transgenre Writing
- 10 Climate Fiction
- Part III Themes
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Trish Salah contextualizes the broad post-2010 emergence of transgender fiction in a longer history of earlier trans and queer fiction and theory while arguing that “trans genre writing” has found recent prominence as a new minor literature. Particular challenges have led trans writers to innovate at the levels of language and aesthetics, perspective (collective, but not homogeneous), and genre, among others. Moreover, these works thematize and challenge norms and imperatives of empire, race, history, visibility, and geography.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction , pp. 174 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021