Ambiguous Selves: Contesting Gender Binaries in Literature, Film and the Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527539532)

This collection of essays on selected texts in literature, film and the media is driven by a shared theme of contesting the binary thinking in respect of gender and sexuality. The three parts of this book â " â oecontesting norms⠝, â oeperforming selves⠝ and â oeblurring the lines⠝ â " delineate the queer celebration of difference and deviance. They pinpoint the limitation of assumed norms and subverting them, revel in the fluid and ambiguous self that springs from the contestation of those norms, and then repeatedly transgress and, as a result, obscure the limits that separate the normal from the abnormal. The variety of texts included in the collection ranges from a discussion of queer subjects represented in film, television and literature to that of the representations of other non-normative figures (including a madwoman, a freak or a prostitute) and to gender-role contestation and gender-bending practicing evidenced in the press, theatre, film, literature and popular culture.

Author: Barbara Braid
ISBN-10: 1527539539
ISBN-13: 9781527539532
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2019
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00d