“Sex was some forgotten atrophy”: Imagining intersex in Woolf’s Orlando and Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
| dc.contributor.author | Dykstra Dykerman, Katelyn Jane | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Libin, Mark (English, Film, and Theatre) Guard, Julie (Labour Studies) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Medoro, Dana (English, Film, and Theatre) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-24T17:19:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-08-24T17:19:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-08-24 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | English, Film and Theatre | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis considers the treatment of early twentieth-century intersex bodies in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!. It takes into special account the prevalence of eugenic discourse during the modernist period, noticing eugenicists’ interest in categorical imperatives for the purposes of statistical analysis and surgical alteration. Their aims were human perfectibility. This thesis argues Orlando and Absalom, Absalom! imagine bodies existing, loving, and dreaming in between male and female, and outside of the violence of surgical “correction.” | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2012 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/8474 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Intersex | en_US |
| dc.subject | Eugenics | en_US |
| dc.subject | William Faulkner | en_US |
| dc.subject | Virginia Woolf | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modernism | en_US |
| dc.title | “Sex was some forgotten atrophy”: Imagining intersex in Woolf’s Orlando and Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |