TY  - CHAP
A1  - John, Aiden
T1  - "Future early" : trans* body as metaphor in Jeanette Winterson's "Frankissstein" (2019)
T2  - Literatur und Zukunft : Beiträge zum Studierendenkongress Komparatistik 2022 / herausgegeben von Lara Ehlis, Kerstin Kiaups, Marco Maffeis und Ben Sulzbacher
N2  - Jeanette Winterson's newest novel "Frankissstein: A Love Story" revolves around technological innovation and its effects on human development. The book's examinations feature trans* character Ry Shelley and transhumanist Victor Stein who interprets Ry's transitioned body as a metaphor for his ideal transhumanist future. This metaphor is based on three main textually conceptualized similarities between trans* identity and transhumanism: a hybridity in Ry's gender identity and embodiment as well as in a transhumanist vision of future human identity, the dissolution of biological determinism and the autonomy to change one's body, associated with recent technological advancement. The novel characterizes this metaphorization process as questionable, positing it with a character who represents not just the Frankenstein archetype but a possibly metaphysical, non-human entity. However, despite this inherent critique of harmful practices of objectification and exploitation of trans* people, "Frankissstein" ultimately reproduces similar practices in other aspects of its trans* representation.
KW  - Winterson, Jeanette
KW  - Transgender <Motiv>
KW  - Transhumanismus
KW  - Winterson, Jeanette: Frankissstein
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/85620
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-856204
SN  - 978-3-96234-081-0
SN  - 978-3-96234-080-3
SP  - 67
EP  - 80
PB  - Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  -