Don’t delay, listen today! To learn more about Chiara’s work, follow her on Twitter @chiarapg4 and, while you’re at it, stay in touch with the podcast on Instagram @queerlitpodcast.
References:
Pellegrini, Chiara. Trans Narrators: First-Person Form and the Gendered Body in Contemporary Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Gillis, Stacy and Chiara Pellegrini (eds.) The Cultural Politics of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Special Issue of Feminist Theory 25.4 (2024).
Mejeur, Cody and Chiara Pellegrini (eds.) Trans/forming Narrative Studies. Special Issue of Narrative 32.2 (2024).
Pellegrini, Chiara. ‘Anticipating the Plot: Overdetermining Heteronormative Destiny on the Twenty-First- Century Screen’, Textual Practice (2022): 1-23.
Pellegrini, Chiara. ‘“Declining to Describe”: Intersex Narrators and Textual Visibility’. Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex. Ed. Megan Walker (Palgrave, 2022): 49-64.
ISSN International Society for the Study of Narrative
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Narrative for Social Justice
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Jay Prosser’s Second Skins
Travis Alabanza’s None of the Above
Calvin Gimpelevic’s Invasions: Stories
Susan Lanser “Queering Narrative Voice” Textual Practice 32.6 (2018)
Sara Taylor’s The Lauras
Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox
Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
Marquis Bey’s Black Trans Feminism
Hida Viloria - Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette 2017)
Hannah Gadsby’s The Gender Agenda
Dahlia Belle (the comic Lena mentions)
Cody Mejeur
Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick’s Meanwhile, Elsewhere
The Ultimatum
Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
- How might narrative point of view affect trans and intersex narratives? Why do you think the first person has been a particularly popular point of view in trans texts?
- What does ‘embodiment’ mean when it comes to narration?
- Chiara suggests that narratology (the study of how we tell stories) can learn a lot from trans narrative forms. What, for example, can we learn from a trans perspective?
- We speak about problematic narratives that conceal trans or queer bodies, only to reveal them to readers or viewers later on. Can you think of an example for this type of narrative? Why would this be harmful?
- How do you feel about some of the recent queer reality TV shows?
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