Essays about: "Andria Nyberg Forshage"

Found 1 essay containing the words Andria Nyberg Forshage.

  1. 1. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Andria Nyberg Forshage; [2015]
    Keywords : aesthetics; becoming; erasure; excessive object; feminine sublime; feminist aesthetics; literary theory; monstrosity; sublimity; transgender theory; trans women s writing; transmisogyny; unrepresentability;

    Abstract : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). READ MORE