| dc.contributor.author | Funke, Jana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-12-10T15:37:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 215-226 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13825577.2012.735410 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14231 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | en_GB |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825577.2012.735410#.UqcvYYtFDcs | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Duncker, Patricia | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Barry, James | en_GB |
| dc.subject | gender | en_GB |
| dc.subject | sexuality | en_GB |
| dc.subject | transgender | en_GB |
| dc.subject | feminist theory | en_GB |
| dc.subject | queer time | en_GB |
| dc.subject | queer history | en_GB |
| dc.title | Obscurity and Gender Resistance in Patricia Duncker's James Miranda Barry | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.date.available | 2013-12-10T15:37:01Z | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1382-5577 | |
| dc.description | publication-status: Submitted | en_GB |
| dc.description | types: Article | en_GB |
| dc.description | © 2012 by Taylor & Francis | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1744-4243 | |
| dc.identifier.journal | European Journal of English Studies | en_GB |
