..., and on returning, he wrote eight biographical works. He dedicated the last twenty years of his life to writing his memoirs. They were written at the request of the Marquise de Lambert and were only published long after his death in 1724. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Emily Rose Abstract This article discusses how a trans-disciplinary exploration of two translations from French and Spanish to English of two early modern transgender memoirs could create a new angle on the translation of trans identity. Translation equals manipulation and the power to re-present...

...Amy McNally Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen Andrews Arin New York : Simon and Schuster , 2014 . 288 pp. Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition Hill Katie Rain New York : Simon and Schuster , 2014 . 288 pp. Copyright © 2015...

... between the 1950s and 1970s, up to and including her memoir Conundrum , and represents arguably only the first of three periods in Morris's writing. This essay argues that two subsequent periods diversify our understanding of Morris as a complex, transcultural figure: her broadly leftist, anticolonial...

...Brian James Baer Abstract This article discusses the anglophone reception of the life and work of the East German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Particular attention is paid to the translation and marketing of von Mahlsdorf's memoir...

...Chiara Pellegrini Abstract The following is a transcription of an interview with Juliet Jacques, conducted and edited by Chiara Pellegrini. Placing Trans: A Memoir ( 2015 ) in the context of Jacques's larger body of work, the interview discusses writing in the first person, transitioning...

...Andrea Long Chu References Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Fitzpatrick Cat . 2015 . Review of Trans: A Memoir, by Jacques Juliet . Lambda Literary , November 3 . www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/11/03/trans-by-juliet...

...Maxine L. Grossman Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders Ladin Joy Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2012 . x + 255 pp . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Midway through a memoir of transition that is at once rueful, humorous...

... of personal and political self-definition” (60). The chapter examines three transsexual memoirs: Jan Morris's 1967 memoir Conundrum , Deirdre McCloskey's 1999 memoir Crossing , and Jennifer Finley Boylan's 2004 memoir She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders . Aizura treats these autobiographical accounts...

... transmasculine people to both a larger community and a longer history of existence. Within the field of trans studies, those with particular interests in masculinity studies, disability studies, trans and gay memoir, and the overlap of gay and trans movements in organizations during the late mid- to end...

... departments in the 1980s, which would set some of the groundwork for the eventual development of trans studies in the 1990s and the publication of formative works like Leslie Feinberg's arguably autofictional novel Stone Butch Blues (1993), Kate Bornstein's critical memoir Gender Outlaw (1994), and more...

... “bright and beautiful” (40), is a living testimonial to the forms of trans resilience in the face of trauma that the narrator is about to be initiated into. Over the course of the “confabulous memoir,” she will fight (and kill) cops and johns to defend herself and her trans sisterhood, fall in love...

...Emma B. Mincks emincks@unm.edu it was never going to be okay . Jaye Simpson . Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions , 2020 . 111 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This memoir of poetry, dedicated to “all the queer NDN foster kids out there,” cuts deep...

... to write. In our “Arts & Culture” section, we are pleased to present “The I in Trans Genre,” an interview with British author, journalist, and filmmaker Juliet Jacques, conducted and transcribed by Chiara Pellegrini. Focusing specifically on Jacques's Trans: A Memoir as a text that purposely...

... retrospectively claimed as “trans” for their racialized, sexualized, gendered, and nationalized temporal underpinnings is what I am doing in my current book manuscript, and to some extent what Cameron and I were trying to do in our introduction to Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka's 1962 memoir Out of the Ordinary...

...-women intruders and disrupters is so much more culturally available, so much more memory producing, than what actually happened, the records of the conference organizers themselves and several others who have written memoirs, and our own histories and voices as trans people? I need also to ask myself...

... I first heard about Danielle Allen's biography Cuz: Or the Life and Times of Michael A . At first, I was only half listening to the author's interview on public radio, focused instead on the events of the day's class. My students and I had been working through Janet Mock's 2014 memoir Redefining...

..., and the Philippines in 1898 (Trask 1999 ; Hauʻofa 2008 ; Bascara 2006 ; Go 2011 ). The multiple times of trans elude the linear rationality of history and visible subjects of knowledge. Trans uses of cultural forms, including literary and popular memoir, live performance, documentary film/video, and digital...

... Morrison's Sula and the reflection of self that it provided for Mock, as well as Smith's illustration of the racialized and gendered implications of Morrison's representations. A Black feminist analysis of the memoir recognizes the significance of these connections. This “necessary bonding” that Wendi...

... the Chilean context of travesti writing, as animated by Lemebel, one of the “mares of the apocalypse” posing in Las dos Fridas on the cover of this issue. With Emily Rose's essay on the memoirs of seventeenth-century Catalina de Erauso and Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont, we...