Early Modern Transgender Fairies
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Abstract The early modern fairy is a long ignored transgender figure. This article presents transhistoricist analysis of how range “transgender” concepts manifest in the literary imagination—instabilities, transformations, ambiguities, or indeterminacies sex and gender—through representation fairies supernatural. It focuses on Ariel Shakespeare's Tempest, Duessa Spenser's Faerie Queene, Jocastus Randolph's Amyntas. Breaking from threatening medieval tradition, writers reshaped were conceptualized popular imagination, which inform our ideas supernatural gender instability to this day. While approaches period have recently come prominence, remain marginal. seeks establish what offer theory can historicism. Through readings figures, demonstrates such figures provided space culture could fantastically conceptualize identities.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transgender studies quarterly
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2328-9260', '2328-9252']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8749596