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Narrative and the Re/Production of Transsexual: The Foreclosure of an Endured Emergence of Gender Multiplicity

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	Abstract

In some autobiographical narratives, transsexual has been narrated outside the gender binary. These narratives have the propensity to reconceptualize multiplicity of genders. However, the re/production of transsexual appears not only to be a function of how the position is represented but also a function of the structure of narrative. If this is so, then the following questions arise: What is the relation between the representation of a subject position in a narrative and the structure of narrative? How does this relation function in the re/production of transsexual and gender multiplicity? In an analysis of one autobiographical interview, I read male-to-female transsexual as a subject position grounded in dichotomous gender was disrupted only where ambiguity is allowed in the narrative structure, and this disruption was foreclosed through how the subject was represented and/or the structure of the narrative.

First published on November 26, 2008
Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 2008, doi:10.1177/1532708608327225


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