TransGothic in Literature and Culture

<p>This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature visual media and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender sexuality form and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions including: How can we discuss Gothic as a genre that crosses over boundaries constructed by a culture to define and contain gender and sexuality? How do transgender bodies specifically mark or disrupt this boundary crossing? In what ways does the Gothic open up a plural narrative space for transgenre explorations encounters and experimentation? With this the volume’s chapters explore expected categories such as transgenders transbodies and transembodiments but also broader concepts that move through and beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality such as transhistories transpolitics transmodalities and transgenres. Illuminating such areas as the appropriation of the trans body in Gothic literature and film the function of trans rhetorics in memoir textual markers of transgenderism and the Gothic’s transgeneric qualities the chapters offer innovative but not limited ways to interpret the Gothic. In addition the book intersects with but also troubles non-trans feminist and queer readings of the Gothic. Together these diverse approaches engage the Gothic as a definitively trans subject and offer new and exciting connections and insights into Gothic Media Film Narrative and Gender and Sexuality Studies. </p>