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Abstract
Popular narratives about trans identity traditionally rely on a metaphorical understanding of trans embodiment as a linear and unidirectional journey. This paper discusses how this temporality is questioned, reshaped, interrupted, and sidestepped in five recent novels by trans and non-binary authors: Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (2021), Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017), Juno Dawson’s Wonderland (2020), Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017), and Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless (2021). The spatiotemporal organization of these novels negotiates the linearities that are conventionally employed in relation to trans stories, as each text engages with the conventions of specific genres—from the Bildungsroman to the picaresque, from science fiction to “chick lit,” from young adult literature to horror—in order to move beyond the structure of the personal transition journey.
关于跨性别身份的流行叙事传统上依赖于对跨性别化身的隐喻性理解，将其视为线性和单向的旅程。本文讨论了跨性别和非二元性别作家最近的五部小说是如何质疑、重塑、打断和回避这种时间性的:托里·彼得斯的《Detransition, Baby》(2021)、安德里亚·劳勒的《保罗以凡人女孩的形式出现》(2017)、朱诺·道森的《Wonderland》(2020)、里弗斯·所罗门的《An Unkindness of Ghosts》(2017)和艾莉森·拉姆菲特的《Tell Me I 'm不值一文》(2021)。这些小说的时空组织协调了传统上与跨性别故事相关的线性关系，因为每个文本都与特定体裁的惯例有关——从成长小说到流浪汉小说，从科幻小说到“少女文学”，从青年文学到恐怖小说——为了超越个人过渡旅程的结构。
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From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.
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