Boxing Day: Time and Contradiction in Transgender Poetry

节礼日：跨性别诗歌中的时间与矛盾

• 批准号: 2889741
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2889741
• 关键词: Boxing; Day; Time; Contradiction; Transgender

This research project will examine recent work from transgender poets, including Oliver Baez Bendorf and Samuel Ace, and critically evaluate, through close reading, how they present the contradictions inherent in transgender lives and bodies, how they make sense of their embodiment and complicate it, and how they situate the trans body in and through time. The creative component, 'Boxing Day' is a full length collection of prose poetry addressing the experience of gender transition in an Irish context. 'Boxing Day' explores themes of dissociation and anxiety and details the impact that indefinitely waiting for healthcare has on mental health. Critical ComponentTrans poetry is a medium through which a new language of gender identity can emerge (Ladin 637), and a locus for trans writers to reclaim agency over how their gender is 'read' textually (Merrydew 29). Poets Jos Charles, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, and Oliver Baez Bendorf have each released two collections since 2015, the so-called year of trans visibility. Samuel Ace has been publishing since the early 90s and has been anthologized in Troubling the Line (2013) and We Want It All (2020). His early prose poetry was recently compiled and republished as Meet Me There (2019). Through close reading and analysis of these poets' recent collections, this research will explore how they negotiate bodily and linguistic contradictions in their work and navigate contradictory narratives of self, in which gender, embodiment, name, pronoun, and tense may be misaligned. Trans experiences are required to be legible and regularized if trans people are to be granted access to the medical establishment. Yet to live as a trans subject is to inhabit contradiction; to exhibit a marked incongruence between internal gender and external embodiment. Trans people may also exemplify visible temporal contradictions by rapidly aging following hormonal replacement therapy. The tempo of a marginal, queer life inherently confuses or disrupts the conventional flow of time; queer lives do not progress the same way as other lives, and may experience time distortions or delay (Halberstam 89). Queer or trans time is often "halted", past and future tenses are blurred, simultaneously distant and present (Israeli-Nevo 38). Tempo, patterning, and repetition relate to both temporality and poetry; through text, poets can construct a body and bodily timeline that is complex, multiple, that is not legible, the way the state requires the trans body to appear. Poetry allows trans people to make sense of their embodiment, and to complicate it. Drawing on combined critical methodologies from literary studies and queer theory, through close reading I will examine how variations of poetic form, and language, from the intelligible to the obscure, might represent the contractions of trans embodiment, and evaluate how trans poets situate the body in and through time. Beginning with an overview, chapter 1 will survey the themes apparent in recent trans poetry; subsequent chapters will focus on specific authors, examining their work and use of form, including Baez Bendorf's inclination towards rule-bound forms, and Samuel Ace's use of prose poetry. In openly hostile environments, contradictory gendered presentation may incite violence; in the poetic imaginary, the poet has agency over where to place contradictions. This research will explore how seemingly incongruous ideas may inhabit a text; how 'pluralistic, even contradictory identities' (Dickon 31) can be expressed and coexist within the same poem. Creative Component'Boxing Day' will explore the experience of waiting for an assessment, alongside themes of isolation and embodiment. The poems will be arranged sequentially, covering the span of 3 years.

该研究项目将审查跨性别诗人的最新作品，包括奥利弗·贝兹·本多夫和塞缪尔·艾斯，并通过仔细阅读批判性地评估他们如何呈现跨性别生活和身体固有的矛盾，他们如何理解自己的体现并使之复杂化，以及他们如何将跨性别者的身体置于时间之中并穿越时间。创意部分“节礼日”是一部完整的散文诗集，讲述了爱尔兰背景下的性别转变经历。 “节礼日”探讨了分离和焦虑的主题，并详细介绍了无限期等待医疗保健对心理健康的影响。关键组件跨性别诗歌是一种媒介，通过它可以出现一种新的性别认同语言（Ladin 637），也是跨性别作家重新获得文本“解读”性别的权力的场所（Merrydew 29）。诗人 Jos Charles、Kayleb Rae Candrili 和 Oliver Baez Bendorf 自 2015 年（即所谓的跨性别者可见度年）以来分别发布了两个系列。塞缪尔·艾斯自 90 年代初开始出版作品，并被收录在《Troubling the Line》（2013 年）和《We Want It All》（2020 年）中。他的早期散文诗最近被整理并重新出版为《在那里遇见我》（2019）。通过仔细阅读和分析这些诗人最近的诗集，本研究将探讨他们如何在作品中协商身体和语言上的矛盾，并驾驭矛盾的自我叙事，其中性别、体现、名字、代词和时态可能会错位。如果要允许跨性别者进入医疗机构，跨性别者的经历必须清晰且规范。然而，作为一个跨性别主体生活就意味着生活在矛盾之中。表现出内在性别与外在体现之间的明显不一致。跨性别者也可能通过激素替代疗法后迅速衰老来体现明显的时间矛盾。边缘、酷儿生活的节奏本质上会混淆或扰乱传统的时间流动。酷儿生活的进展方式与其他生活不同，并且可能会经历时间扭曲或延迟（Halberstam 89）。酷儿或跨性别时间经常“停止”，过去时和将来时变得模糊，同时遥远和现在（Israeli-Nevo 38）。节奏、模式和重复都与时间性和诗歌有关。通过文本，诗人可以构建一个复杂的、多重的、难以辨认的身体和身体时间线，就像国家要求跨性别身体出现的方式一样。诗歌让跨性别者能够理解自己的体现，并使之复杂化。借鉴文学研究和酷儿理论的综合批评方法，通过仔细阅读，我将研究诗歌形式和语言的变化，从可理解的到晦涩的，如何代表跨性别体现的收缩，并评估跨性别诗人如何定位身体在时间中并通过时间。第一章从概述开始，将审视近期跨性别诗歌中明显的主题；随后的章节将重点关注特定作者，研究他们的作品和形式的使用，包括贝兹·本多夫对受规则约束的形式的倾向，以及塞缪尔·艾斯对散文诗的使用。在公开敌对的环境中，矛盾的性别表述可能会煽动暴力；在诗歌想象中，诗人有权决定在哪里放置矛盾。这项研究将探讨看似不协调的想法如何存在于文本中。如何在同一首诗中表达和共存“多元甚至矛盾的身份”（Dickon 31）。创意部分“节礼日”将探索等待评估的体验，以及隔离和体现的主题。诗歌将按顺序排列，跨度为3年。