Disavowing attachments : maladjustment in trans[masculine] thought
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- "Disavowing Attachments" identifies and thinks with forms of trans maladjustment in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and theory. Whereas work in transgender studies has long emphasized agency, self-sameness, and contentment in order to untangle trans identity from mental illness, I argue that this tactic has limited trans studies' ability to respond to the very lives and texts that early trans scholars sought the authority to interpret. Consequently, this project returns to texts central to the field—including the Brandon Teena archive, the secluded life of early trans man Michael Dillon, and Sandy Stone's inaugural manifesto—in order to argue for and model trans theory that thinks with, rather than against, the bad feelings that persist in transphobic discourse and trans cultural production alike. To that end, the project opens with an account of the entanglement of trans and disability history in the nineteenth to twentieth-century United States, in order to put forward maladjustment as a resource for doing trans theory. Each subsequent chapter meditates on how prevalent, disavowed narratives of trans maladjustment—the depressed transsexual, the raped transgender man, and the trans recluse—allow for imaginative routes around old theoretical impasses, as well as offer a version of trans theory that is more able to engage with other minority discourses, especially feminist, disability, and critical race theory, to which it is indebted and indelibly attached.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Awkward-Rich, Cameron |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Primary advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Thesis advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Thesis advisor | Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Ngai, Sianne |
| Advisor | Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann, 1967- |
| Advisor | Ngai, Sianne |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Cameron Awkward-Rich. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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