Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Transgender Epistemologies in the Biopolitcal State

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dc.contributor.authorGruenewald, Aleta Frances
dc.contributor.supervisorRoss, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-03T22:37:17Z
dc.date.available2015-09-03T22:37:17Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-09-03
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of English
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines why contemporary transgender populations in democratic states fail to see the benefits of social rights legislation. I use Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer to explain how transgender people have become encamped in the margins of the contemporary biopolitical world in such a way as the rule of law does not apply to them. This encampment is especially severe for those who defy our current way of understanding transgender identity. I trace transgender back to its inter-war origins in order to establish how medicalized discourses have created the narrow contemporary definition. I use Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood, which details the lives of non-passing inverts in the “night-world” of interwar Europe, to trace an alternate history of transgender subjects who have been excluded from such discourses. Linking Barnes’s characterization of inverted figures to contemporary trans people who do not pass allows for the creation of alternate transgender epistemologies that undermine states of encampment.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0615en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0298en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0733en_US
dc.description.proquestemailagruenew@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6667
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjecttransgenderen_US
dc.subjecttransen_US
dc.subjecttransexualen_US
dc.subjectlawen_US
dc.subjectinverten_US
dc.subjectinversionen_US
dc.subjectAgambenen_US
dc.subjectbiopoliticsen_US
dc.subjectdemocracyen_US
dc.subjectsocial rightsen_US
dc.subjectcitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectliterature as theoryen_US
dc.subjectphilosophyen_US
dc.subjectqueer theoryen_US
dc.subjectlgbtqen_US
dc.subjectgender identityen_US
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectDjuna Barnesen_US
dc.subjectNightwooden_US
dc.subjectethnonationalismen_US
dc.subjectpolitical theoryen_US
dc.subjectexceptionen_US
dc.subjectencampmenten_US
dc.subjectepistemologyen_US
dc.subjectnaturalen_US
dc.titleDjuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Transgender Epistemologies in the Biopolitcal Stateen_US
dc.title.alternativeDjuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Transgender Epistemologies in the Biopolitical Stateen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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