Re/Presenting Self & Other: Trans Deliverance in Caribbean Texts

King demonstrates, in Caribbean contexts trans genders can serve as a kind of bridge to conventional gender--to make someone who is "abnormal" and challengers social order "normal" and complicit with the social order. She will also see how trans Caribbean genders can point out th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Callaloo 2008-04, Vol.31 (2), p.581-599
1. Verfasser: King, Rosamond S.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:King demonstrates, in Caribbean contexts trans genders can serve as a kind of bridge to conventional gender--to make someone who is "abnormal" and challengers social order "normal" and complicit with the social order. She will also see how trans Caribbean genders can point out the way to validation an normalization of multiple genders. She focuses more obviously contentious gender transgressors more readily leads to analysis of the strictures and ambiguities of Caribbean binary gender.
ISSN:0161-2492
1080-6512
1080-6512
DOI:10.1353/cal.0.0085