Butch Geography |
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| Author:
| Waite, Stacey |
| ISBN: | 978-1-936797-25-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Tupelo Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay "Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves," Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: "Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: 'i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body' ... This is [Waite's] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing...
More DescriptionIn her Los Angeles Review of Books essay "Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves," Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: "Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: 'i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body' ... This is [Waite's] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence -- to get around English's pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and..."