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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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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.

Item Type: Book Item
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)
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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15 October 2021Published
Number of Pages: 402
Page Range: pp. 313-352
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Date of first compliant deposit: 18 June 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 21 June 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIED[AHRC] Arts and Humanities Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000267
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