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      The Alchemy of Transformation: Turning the Violence of Transphobia into Voice with Geoffrey Chaucer and Kai Cheng Thom

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      Date
      2019-10-30
      Author
      Monk-McKenzie, Kai 1964-
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      This essay compares issues of gender diversity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Pardoner’s Tale and Kai Cheng Thom’s recent novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir. This comparison expands on queer readings of The Pardoner’s Tale and demonstrates possible links across time between authors dealing with the experiences of gender diverse people. It shows how gender diverse people in different historical contexts can confront hatred and expand limiting frames of cultural expression, by drawing on their own embodied experiences as sources of knowing and converting that knowledge into forms of expressive culture.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Robinson, Peter
      Committee
      Martin, Ann
      Copyright Date
      August 2019
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/12427
      Subject
      gender diversity
      transgender
      transhistoricity
      queer medieval
      Canadian fiction
      embodiment
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