Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture (Queer Studies) - Softcover

Viola Amato (verst.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837634191 ISBN 13: 9783837634198

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulation of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides the first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex.

About this title

About the Author:

Viola Amato earned her Ph.D in North American literature and culture from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on queer movements, social class, and higher education in neoliberalism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3837634191
• ISBN 13: 9783837634198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316