Trans Narrators
First-Person Form and the Gendered Body in Contemporary Literature
$276.85
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2025
Summary
Trans Narrators examines a range of trans-authored novels, short stories and autobiographical narratives published after 2015 and develops a new methodology at the intersection of trans studies and narrative studies.
The book identifies temporality, embodiment and reliability as key areas of investment for trans authors, and focuses specifically on the first-person narrator, showing how its formal characteristics impact how we understand gender and the body, the act o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399526944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399526944 |
| Author: | Chiara Pellegrini |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture |
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Critics Review
In illuminating the formal practices and social challenges of narrating trans lives in both fiction and autobiography, Trans Narrators offers brilliant new ways of thinking about all narrative acts. Deeply thoughtful and richly capacious, Pellegrini’s pathbreaking book is a milestone not only for trans studies but for narratology tout court. – Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University
About The Author
Chiara Pellegrini
Chiara Pellegrini completed her Ph.D. at Newcastle University in 2022 and currently works as an independent researcher and as an Equity and Inclusion Adviser at Canterbury Christ Church University. She has published articles and book chapters on queer theory and film adaptation, contemporary trans memoirs and novels, queer temporalities in film and television, the body in intersex narratives, and feminism and popular culture. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Narrative entitled ‘Trans/forming Narrative Studies’ (2024).
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