Hélène Cixous's<i>Autre Bisexualité</i>and the Eternal Feminine in the Works of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Kirkley, Laura

doi:10.1080/09574042.2013.857964

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“…Thus, rather than being about the neutrality of gender (neither masculine nor feminine), bisexuality implies a simultaneous existence of both masculine and feminine behavioral traits within a self. According to Cixous, every human being contains the elements of masculine and feminine traits, and that the ability to maintain co-presence within the self is regarded as feminine capacity (Hall, 2003;Hewson, 2001;Kirkley, 2013;Spanfelner, 2007). In her introduction to bisexuality, Cixous clarifies that this disparity is because male sexuality is hyper-emphasized to almost excluding the female body and desire.…”

Section: The Conceptual Background: Cixous's Inherent Bisexuality and éCriture Fémininementioning

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Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

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2021

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Hijra is a distinctive South Asia known for their gender and sexual difference and associated with their transgender and intersex identities. Otherwise known as transwomen, they are traditionally subjected to prejudices and embedded within narratives of exclusion, discrimination, and the subculture. As a result, Hijras are typically perceived as isolated, abject, and passive victims who remain social and economic peripheries. Concerning the stereotypical image of hijras, this study explores Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happinessecriture féminine, this study examines characters’ contestations and alterations of existing definitions of sex and gender. This framework allows for a manifestation of gender flexibility and feminine writing as a tool for self-emancipation. Both protagonists Anjum and Tilo, illustrate that hijras are not predetermined but are formulated in a complex process of a conscious rewriting of the self. While the former character resists heteropatriarchal normativity through her conscious alterations of the phallogocentric structure of her Urdu language, the latter defies societal conventions of family and marriage with unorthodox views and actions that are materialized in the writing of her story.

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Section: The Conceptual Background: Cixous's Inherent Bisexuality and éCriture Fémininementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

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2021

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Paradoxical self-translations: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s remarkable admission

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Irish Studies Review

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Hélène Cixous'sAutre Bisexualitéand the Eternal Feminine in the Works of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

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Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

Paradoxical self-translations: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s remarkable admission

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