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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Výsledek na webu

<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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’ : The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’ : The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Life Writing

ISSN

1448-4528

e-ISSN

1751-2964

Svazek periodika

21

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

349-367

Kód UT WoS článku

000986311300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85159197994