Kim, Rina
Cross-Gendered Literary Voices
1. Introduction: Cross-Gendered Literary Voices
Rina Kim
Part I. Empowering or Effacing The Victorian Other?
2. Female Narrative Energy in the Writings of Dead White Males: Dickens, Collins and Freud
Madeleine Wood
3. ‘Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration’: Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the
Bryony Randall
Part II. Resisting and Embracing the Other via the Abject Entity
4. ‘These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here’
Sanja Bahun
5. What Happens When a Transvestite Gynaecologist Usurps the Narrator?: Cross-Gendered Ventriloquism in Djuna Barnes’s
Sarah Hayden
6. ‘Her speech a purely buccal phenomenon’: Voice as a Lost Object in Samuel Beckett’s Works
Rina Kim
7. The Engendered and Dis-engendered Other in Iris Murdoch’s Early Fiction
Miles Leeson
Part III. Gender as Performance and the Vocalization of Transgendered Bodies
8. ‘His almost vanished voice’: Gendering and Transgendering Bodily Signification and the Voice in Angela Carter’s
Claire Westall
9. No Man’s Land: the Transgendered Voice in Jeffrey Eugenides’s
David Brauner
10. Transvestic Voices and Gendered Performance in Patrick McCabe’s
Claire Nally
Part IV. Authority and Anxieties of Appropriation in Historical Narratives
11. Authenticity, Authority and the Author: the Sugared Voice of the Neo-Victorian Prostitute in
Mark Llewellyn
12. ‘Queering’ the Speaking Subject in Sarah Waters’s
Joanne Bishton
13. Conclusion: Crossings and Re-crossings
Claire Westall
Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Theatre History, Gender Studies
- Editor
- Kim, Rina
- Westall, Claire
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 253 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137020758
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-33553-4