The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment
by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Duke University Press, 2022 eISBN: 978-1-4780-2330-2 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1868-1 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-1605-2 Library of Congress Classification HQ77.9.A95 2022
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
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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