Nonbinary Jane Austen Forerunners Ideas First
by [Washington, Chris]
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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.
Product Details
- University of Minnesota P Brand
- Jan 7, 2025 Pub Date:
- 9781517917586 ISBN-13:
- 1517917581 ISBN-10:
- 114.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 7 in * 0.5 in * 5 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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