![]() I read current studies into recent identity theories, into gender, language, and labels, looking for ones that fit me. I started a doctoral research program, asking why are identities so important – and mis-gendering so frustrating. I asked, why do you care? None of us really knew the answer to that. ![]() They asked me to clarify but I didn’t have the right language. They wondered which gender my protagonists were, male or female. Was I alone in this? The interest began in at graduate college, writing my agender stories, when all around were cis-gendered, heteronormative, and young students. ![]() I needed to understand why there was such a lack of such narratives. As such, I wanted to find creative work within contemporary Western literature that reflected my own agender experiences. A tomboy, androgynous in looks, female in body, I’m an emerging writer and a non-traditional academic. For the last few years, I have been looking for work that speaks to me. Part Two, my creative response, shares another 25,000 words of gender ambiguous stories. Part One studies identity, cultural shifts towards gender, the rhetoric and representation of genderqueer literature, and offers a craft analysis through a look at a few key players. After constantly being asked, what are you, this manuscript is a personal narrative, research project and creative experimentation. The Ambiguity Project comes out of my need for literary role models. Publisher : dtv Verlagsgesellschaft (July 19, 2019) Language : German.
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