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Passing rhetorics and the performance of gender identity: (Auto)biographical, visual, and virtual representations of transgender subjectivity and embodiment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Passing rhetorics and the performance of gender identity: (Auto)biographical, visual, and virtual representations of transgender subjectivity and embodiment./
Author:	Surkan, Kim.
Description:	314 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2288.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-06A.
Subject:	Women's Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3095490
ISBN:	0496431153

Passing rhetorics and the performance of gender identity: (Auto)biographical, visual, and virtual representations of transgender subjectivity and embodiment.
Surkan, Kim.

Passing rhetorics and the performance of gender identity: (Auto)biographical, visual, and virtual representations of transgender subjectivity and embodiment. - 314 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2288.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2003.

This dissertation focuses on "gender identity" as it is performed and represented in a variety of genres, including transsexual autobiography and biography, film, staged drag performances and online interactions. This interdisciplinary project examines rhetorics of gender "passing," a phenomenon in which persons of one biological sex interact socially posing as members of the opposite sex. The passing figure, as a site of cultural anxiety, is an ideal location for studying gender as it is expressed and interpreted (or misinterpreted) through the strategic manipulation of multiple codes. Analysis of strategic use of dialogue and/or narrative surrounding such gender performances---fictional and "real"---shows how the construction of masculinity and femininity is complicated by other features of identity such as race, class, age, and sexuality. Theoretically, the project considers the concept of "identity politics," negotiating the "risk of essentialism" and the importance of the effect that postmodern thought has on the relationship between identity, politics, language and (self-)representation. In transgendered life experiences, the body often becomes a conflicted site of "inner exile," in which one's interior gender identity is not matched by the exterior social expectations of one's physical gendered appearance. Passing rhetorics recurring in autobiography, biography, film, and in new media contexts reflect this exiled subject position occupied by transgendered people. Research methods include close analysis of texts and performances using current theories of representation emanating from feminist studies, cultural studies and queer studies; literary approaches to the genres of autobiography and biography; and interviews with transgender subjects and drag performers. Analysis of transgender subjectivity as it is constructed by the subjects themselves, their biographers, and print and online media illustrates not only the politics of representation, but the way language serves the construction of gender identity rhetorically, and how rhetorical strategies can be employed to subvert and resist traditional binary configurations of sex, gender and sexuality.

ISBN: 0496431153Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017481
Women's Studies.

Passing rhetorics and the performance of gender identity: (Auto)biographical, visual, and virtual representations of transgender subjectivity and embodiment.
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