Introduction to Struggle and Hustle: Trans and Queer Nonfiction Prose

Trans and queer people have long both been written about and written about themselves in popular nonfiction prose. Indeed, nonfiction prose's sense of immediacy and materiality insists on self-defined reality of people who challenge conventional notions of gender, sexuality, gender expression,...

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Published inProse studies Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 199 - 203
Main Author Hager, Lisa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.09.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
autobiography
digital essay
LGBTQ studies
life writing
nonfiction prose
queer
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Summary:Trans and queer people have long both been written about and written about themselves in popular nonfiction prose. Indeed, nonfiction prose's sense of immediacy and materiality insists on self-defined reality of people who challenge conventional notions of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race, disability, class, geography, size, immigration status, and employment-daring to imagine what a thriving self and community can look like. In exploring this body of work as well as the bodies in this work, the vital scholarship of each article takes up the issue's theme by affirming, in unexpected and shifting ways, that, for queer and trans writers, the struggle has always been real and the hustle has always been deep.
ISSN:0144-0357
1743-9426
DOI:10.1080/01440357.2022.2150042