Nonbinary Jane Austen /
"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 th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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| Summary: | "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." -- |
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| Physical Description: | 99 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781517917586 1517917581 |