Obscurity and Gender Resistance in Patricia Duncker's James Miranda Barry

Since his death in 1865, military surgeon James Barry has alternately been classified as a cross-dressing woman or as an intersexed individual. Patricia Duncker's novel James Miranda Barry (1999) poses an important challenge to such readings, as it does not reveal any foundational truth about B...

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Autor principal: Funke, Jana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4214389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2012.735410
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description Since his death in 1865, military surgeon James Barry has alternately been classified as a cross-dressing woman or as an intersexed individual. Patricia Duncker's novel James Miranda Barry (1999) poses an important challenge to such readings, as it does not reveal any foundational truth about Barry's sex. Resting on obscurity rather than revelation, the text frustrates the desire to know the past in terms of gender binaries and stable sexual identity categories. Drawing on feminist and queer theorisations of the relation between gender and time, this essay demonstrates that Duncker's use of obscurity opens up alternative strategies of gender resistance.
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spelling pubmed-42143892014-11-14 Obscurity and Gender Resistance in Patricia Duncker's James Miranda Barry Funke, Jana Eur J Engl Stud Research Article Since his death in 1865, military surgeon James Barry has alternately been classified as a cross-dressing woman or as an intersexed individual. Patricia Duncker's novel James Miranda Barry (1999) poses an important challenge to such readings, as it does not reveal any foundational truth about Barry's sex. Resting on obscurity rather than revelation, the text frustrates the desire to know the past in terms of gender binaries and stable sexual identity categories. Drawing on feminist and queer theorisations of the relation between gender and time, this essay demonstrates that Duncker's use of obscurity opens up alternative strategies of gender resistance. Taylor & Francis 2012-11-28 2012-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4214389/ /pubmed/25400502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2012.735410 Text en © 2012 Jana Funke http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf This is an open access article distributed under the Supplemental Terms and Conditions for iOpenAccess articles published in Taylor & Francis journals (http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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