Brigid Brophy's In Transit and the Deconstruction of Gender, Language, and Narrative in Postmodern Literature
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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Brophy, Brigid. In Transit documents gender fluidity, linguistic instability, and narrative experimentation within late 1960s literary modernism, published in 1969 amid expanding discourse on sexuality and identity preceding the Stonewall Riots. Written by Brigid Brophy, a British novelist and feminist intellectual, the work centers on a protagonist suspended within an airport transit lounge, where shifting identity, including transitions across gender, unfolds through surreal encounters and philosophical inquiry. The novel engages questions of authorship, consciousness, and embodiment, positioning itself within emerging queer and postmodern literary traditions. It supports research in LGBTQ literature, feminist theory, and experimental fiction of the postwar period. Brophy, Brigid. In Transit. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. First American edition. The novel employs typographical play, word games, and shifting narrative voices to examine themes including sexuality, psychoanalysis, music, and language. The protagonist, Evelyn Hilary O'Rooley, also called Pat, moves through a series of destabilizing encounters that unsettle binary constructions of gender and identity. Contemporary jacket text characterizes the work as a commentary on social and intellectual life, while the narrative structure itself resists fixed interpretation. The book aligns with avant-garde literary practices associated with writers such as Muriel Spark and Christine Brooke-Rose, situating Brophy within a network of authors challenging conventional narrative and identity categories. Published at a moment when feminist and queer thought were gaining increased visibility, In Transit anticipates later developments in gender theory and critiques of fixed identity categories. Brophy's engagement with androgyny and semiotics reflects broader intellectual currents of the 1960s, as writers and theorists interrogated the relationship between language, selfhood, and social norms. The novel's setting within a transit space reinforces its thematic focus on liminality and transformation. Dust jacket shows moderate wear with rubbing, small chips, and a tear to the upper rear panel with tape residue; text block clean, interior bright, binding tight; overall very good in a good-only dust jacket. A significant work of experimental literature offering early sustained engagement with gender fluidity and narrative form. …
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- Brigid Brophy's In Transit and the Deconstruction of Gender, Language, and Narrative in Postmodern Literature
- Author
- Brigid Brophy
- Publication year
- 1969
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- First Edition.
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