Cross-gendered literary voices: appropriating, resisting, embracing

This agenda-setting volume of essays interrogates the crossing of gendered voice that occurs in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present. It investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts as well as the particular aesthetic ends of individual authors. It establishes new ground in the critical analysis ofthe way gender switching, transforming or morphing is mobilized in literatureand theatre to create and recreate identities which challenge established binaries and boundaries. Featuring essays discussing writers such as Angela Carter, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sarah Waters, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, the collection provides new impetus for further theoretical explorations of the role of the voice and its gendered construction and transformation within literary andgender studies. INDICE: Acknowledgements.Notes on Contributors.Introduction: Cross-Gendered Literary Voices .PART I: EMPOWERING OR EFFACING THE VICTORIAN OTHER?.Female Narrative Energy in the Writings of Dead White Males: Dickens, Collins and Freud Women Writing Women Writers .'Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration': Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-siÈcle.PART II: RESISTING AND EMBRACING THE OTHER VIA THE ABJECT ENTITY.'These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here': Tidal Voicing and the Poetics ofHome in James Joyce's Ulysses.What Happens When a Transvestite Gynaecologist Usurps the Narrator?: Cross-Gendered Ventriloquism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.'Her speech a purely buccal phenomenon': Voice as a Lost Object in Samuel Beckett's Works.The Engendered and Dis-engendered Other in Iris Murdoch's Early Fiction.PART III: GENDER AS PERFORMANCE AND THE VOCALIZATION OF TRANSGENDERED BODIES.'His almost vanished voice': Gendering and Trans-Gendering Bodily Signification and the Power of the Voice in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve.Transvestic Voices and Gendered Performance in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto .Transgendered Bodies and Voices in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex and RoseTremain's Sacred Country.PART IV: AUTHORITY AND ANXIETIES OF APPROPRIATION INHISTORICAL NARRATIVES.Authenticity, Authority and the Author: The Sugared Voice of the Neo-Victorian Prostitute in The Crimson Petal and the White .'Queering' the Stuttering in Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger.Conclusion: Crossings and Re-crossings .Bibliography.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29987-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido