The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment

Author:   Cameron Awkward-Rich
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9781478018681


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   04 November 2022
Format:   Paperback
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The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment


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In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal. By tracing the coproduction of the categories of disabled and transgender in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzing transmasculine literature and theory by Eli Clare, Elliott DeLine, Dylan Scholinski, and others, Awkward-Rich suggests that thinking with maladjustment might provide new perspectives on the impasses arising from the conflicted relationships among trans, feminist, and queer. In so doing, he demonstrates that rather than only impeding or confining trans life, thought, and creativity, forms of maladjustment have also been and will continue to be central to their development. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

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Author:   Cameron Awkward-Rich
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781478018681


ISBN 10:   1478018682
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   04 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface/Acknowledgments  vii Introduction: On Staying with the Terrible We  1 1. Disabled Histories of Trans  31 Holding Space  61 2. Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual  67 3. Some Dissociative Trans Masc Poetics  89 4. We's Company  117 Afterword/Elegy  143 Notes  151 Bibliography  171 Index  187

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“The Terrible We serves as an important guide for those interested in new ways of viewing trans life in both its positive and negative aspects and those wanting to use everyday archives in a method that is more interested in fractures and gaps rather than acceptance and completion.” -- Jacob Debrock * TSQ *


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Cameron Awkward-Rich is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Dispatch and Sympathetic Little Monster.

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