No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’ : The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399" target="_blank" >10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’ : The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing
Original language description
This article discusses the employment and role of language in selected contemporary Anglophone nonbinary life-writing narratives. Initially, it contextualises these works within the present-day nonbinary visibility and representation debate and through the discussion of older similar life-writing texts, foregrounding the theme of authorial agency over one’s representation in relation to diverse readership. In the analysis, I explore how the narrators relate their language-related struggles, both with their environment (e.g. [un]acceptance of their pronouns) and with the identity formation in the absence of vocabulary. Some narrate the search for, and affective response to finding a suitable existing vocabulary. Narrators and their loved ones who prefer creating their own words are discussed in the second part of the analysis examining existing vocabulary alternation, neologisms, and language creativity. I show how nonbinary autobiographical life writing is impacted by the authors’ hyperaware metalingual engagement with imperfect language, and demonstrate how they recreate this language as a ‘site of resistance’, successfully navigating its oppressive binaristic genderedness to narratively construct and visibilise their identities on their own terms. The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is freely available in Life Writing, May 12 2023, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Life Writing
ISSN
1448-4528
e-ISSN
1751-2964
Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
349-367
UT code for WoS article
000986311300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85159197994