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Visualizing the trans-animal body : the hyena in Medieval bestiaries
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Campbell, Emma (2021) Visualizing the trans-animal body : the hyena in Medieval bestiaries. In: LaFleur, Greta and Raskolnikov, Masha and Kłosowska, Anna, (eds.) Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern. Ithaca [New York]: Cornell University Press, pp. 313-352. ISBN 9781501759086
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Official URL: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1245956940
Abstract
This article examines the imbrication of animal studies, gender studies, and natural history through a transgender prism. Medieval bestiaries offer a significant source for considering how transness before transgender is conceptualized through the animal body. Concentrating on the hyena (a creature thought to move between male and female sexes), I explore bestiary representations of ‘trans-animality’: a form of transness that encompasses gender and species, while demanding an analysis that includes sexuality, geopolitics, and race. These works raise the question of how we interpret textual and visual figurations of transness today, while exposing the ways transness was appropriated, maligned, and racialized in one of the most influential cultural discourses of the Middle Ages.
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D051 Ancient History D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures Q Science > Q Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bestiaries, Animals -- Folklore, Bestiaries -- History and criticism, Hyenas, Animals in literature, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Gender nonconformity -- History | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Ithaca [New York] | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781501759086 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern | ||||||
| Editor: | LaFleur, Greta and Raskolnikov, Masha and Kłosowska, Anna | ||||||
| Official Date: | 15 October 2021 | ||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 402 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 313-352 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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