- Speaker: Isaac Linton Clewes with the paper titled “Writing the (Trans) Body: Towards an Aesthetic of the Transfeminine”.
Description of the activity.
On 9-11 June, the University of Málaga organised their 10th Doctoral Seminars, a three-day conference in which PhD students of Linguistics, Literature and Translation present their papers. I presented a paper entitled “Writing the (Trans) Body: Towards an Aesthetic of the Transfeminine,” which elaborates a framework to analyse representations of the trans feminine subject in art and literature. Trans feminine characters are typically portrayed in the abstract, which can either be used to push negative stereotypes through transphobia, or to reclaim autonomy and power precisely through fantasy and abjection. I argue that, moving away from both humanist optimism and post-structural pessimism, trans feminine art makes productive use of artifice and negativity to address real social concerns.
