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Dear Herculine

2015 American poetry
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Release : 2015
Genre : American poetry
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Book Rating : 579/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dear Herculine by : Aaron Apps

Download or read book Dear Herculine written by Aaron Apps. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2014 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. A book- length epistolary collection of hybrid-, trans-, and inter-genre prose, DEAR HERCULINE is an intertextual project that recalls portions of the 19th-century French hermaphrodite Herculine Barbin's memoirs, discovered and re- published by Michel Foucault. The medical reassignment of Herculine's gender eventually led to his/her death in February of 1868. Herculine's experiences are set against and interwoven into the author's experiences as an intersexed body through the epistolary form.

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

2022-12-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-12-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 195/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by : Julia Novak

Download or read book Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction written by Julia Novak. This book was released on 2022-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Herculine Barbin

2013-01-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-01-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Herculine Barbin by : Michel Foucault

Download or read book Herculine Barbin written by Michel Foucault. This book was released on 2013-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at the age of thirty in a miserable attic in Paris. Here, in an erotic diary, is one lost voice from our sexual past. Provocative, articulate, eerily prescient as she imagines her corpse under the probing instruments of scientists, Herculine brings a disturbing perspective to our own notions of sexuality. Michel Foucault, who discovered these memoirs in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene, presents them with the graphic medical descriptions of Herculine's body before and after her death. In a striking contrast, a painfully confused young person and the doctors who examine her try to sort out the nature of masculine and feminine at the dawn of the age of modern sexuality.

The Book of Shadows

2009-10-13 Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 561/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Shadows by : James Reese

Download or read book The Book of Shadows written by James Reese. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the beautiful, mysterious Sebastiana. Swept away to the witch's manor, Herculine will enter a fantastic, erotic world to discover her true nature -- and her destiny -- in this breathtaking, darkly sensual first novel.

First Impressions

2021-03-29 Fiction
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Release : 2021-03-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 375/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis First Impressions by : C. Koehler

Download or read book First Impressions written by C. Koehler. This book was released on 2021-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry Hughes and Cameron Jameson meet for the first time at a Coming Out Day party, it’s anything but love at first sight. In fact, it’s an unmitigated disaster, despite a scorching physical attraction. Henry, whose social anxiety gets the better of him, humiliates Cameron, and when Cameron finds out about Henry’s past in adult films, he assumes he dodged a disease-covered bullet. Yet as Henry runs into Cameron again and again, he realizes he might have misjudged the younger man. He also realizes that Cameron won’t let go of his own initial view and thinks Henry is an unmitigated ass. First impressions are lasting impressions, and Cameron seems to misinterpret all of Henry’s words and deeds. It’s not until Henry confronts Cameron that Cameron realizes just how wrong he’s been, but he thinks he’s lost his chance. Yet when disaster strikes Cameron and his friends, Henry rides to the rescue. Will Cameron be able to put aside his pride and shame to accept Henry’s help and his heart?

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