Born in the Wrong Story: An Embodied Approach to Transgender Narratives in Dutch Fiction. University of Antwerp
Ghent University, Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
In today's society, we can observe a gap between the complex gender identities, experiences and embodiments of transgender people and the dominant reductionist scenario of gender transition as a movement from a "wrong" body towards a "right" body. This project turns to fictional transgender narratives in Dutch literature, focusing on various narrative structures and their capacity to render visible a large range of transgender subjectivities. ...