Boxing Day: Time and Contradiction in Transgender Poetry

这项研究项目将考察包括奥利弗·贝兹·本多夫和塞缪尔·埃斯在内的变性人诗人的最新作品，并通过仔细阅读来批判性地评估他们如何呈现变性人生活和身体中固有的矛盾，他们如何理解自己的化身并使其复杂化，以及他们如何在时间和时间中定位跨性别者身体。《节礼日》的创作部分是一部完整的散文诗集，讲述了爱尔兰背景下的性别转变经历。《节礼日》探讨了精神分裂和焦虑的主题，并详细描述了无限期地等待医疗保健对心理健康的影响。跨性别诗歌是一种媒介，通过它可以出现一种新的性别认同语言(拉丁637)，也是跨性别作家重新获得如何在文本中阅读他们的性别的场所(Merrydew 29)。自2015年以来，诗人乔斯·查尔斯、凯莱布·雷·坎德里利和奥利弗·贝兹·本多夫各自发行了两个系列，也就是所谓的跨视年。塞缪尔·埃斯从90年代初开始出版，并在《麻烦连线》(2013)和《我们想要一切》(2020)中被选为选集。他的早期散文诗最近被汇编并重新出版，名为《Meet Me There》(2019年)。通过仔细阅读和分析这些诗人最近的作品集，本研究将探索他们如何在作品中协调身体和语言上的矛盾，以及如何驾驭性别、化身、姓名、代词和时态可能错位的自我矛盾叙事。如果跨性别者被允许进入医疗机构，跨性别者的经历必须是清晰和规范的。然而，作为一个跨性主体生活，就是生活在矛盾中；在内在性别和外在体现之间表现出明显的不协调。跨性别者也可能在激素替代治疗后迅速衰老，从而例证可见的时间矛盾。边缘、奇特生活的节奏天生就会混淆或打乱常规的时间流动；奇特生活不会像其他生活一样进步，可能会经历时间扭曲或延迟(Halberstam 89)。酷儿或跨时通常是“停顿”的，过去时态和将来时态是模糊的，同时也是遥远的和现在的(伊斯雷尔-内沃38)。节奏、模式和重复既与时间性有关，也与诗歌有关；通过文本，诗人可以构建一个复杂的、多重的、不可辨认的身体和身体时间线，这是国家要求跨身体出现的方式。诗歌允许跨性别者理解他们的化身，并使其复杂化。借鉴文学研究和酷儿理论相结合的批评方法，通过仔细阅读，我将研究诗歌形式和语言的变化，从易懂到晦涩，如何代表反化身的收缩，并评估跨境诗人如何在时间和时间中定位身体。从概述开始，第一章将考察近期跨诗中明显的主题；接下来的章节将集中于特定的作家，考察他们的作品和形式的使用，包括贝兹·本多夫对规则约束形式的倾向，以及塞缪尔·埃斯对散文诗的使用。在公开敌对的环境中，矛盾的性别表达可能会煽动暴力；在诗意的想象中，诗人有权决定将矛盾放在哪里。这项研究将探索看似不协调的观点如何存在于文本中；如何在同一首诗中表达并共存于“多元的、甚至是矛盾的身份”(狄肯31)。创意部分“节礼日”将探索等待评估的体验，以及孤立和体现的主题。这些诗歌将按顺序排列，跨度为3年。

This research project will examine recent work from transgender poets, including Oliver Baez Bendorf and Samuel Ace, and critically evaluate, through close reading, how they present the contradictions inherent in transgender lives and bodies, how they make sense of their embodiment and complicate it, and how they situate the trans body in and through time. The creative component, 'Boxing Day' is a full length collection of prose poetry addressing the experience of gender transition in an Irish context. 'Boxing Day' explores themes of dissociation and anxiety and details the impact that indefinitely waiting for healthcare has on mental health. Critical ComponentTrans poetry is a medium through which a new language of gender identity can emerge (Ladin 637), and a locus for trans writers to reclaim agency over how their gender is 'read' textually (Merrydew 29). Poets Jos Charles, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, and Oliver Baez Bendorf have each released two collections since 2015, the so-called year of trans visibility. Samuel Ace has been publishing since the early 90s and has been anthologized in Troubling the Line (2013) and We Want It All (2020). His early prose poetry was recently compiled and republished as Meet Me There (2019). Through close reading and analysis of these poets' recent collections, this research will explore how they negotiate bodily and linguistic contradictions in their work and navigate contradictory narratives of self, in which gender, embodiment, name, pronoun, and tense may be misaligned. Trans experiences are required to be legible and regularized if trans people are to be granted access to the medical establishment. Yet to live as a trans subject is to inhabit contradiction; to exhibit a marked incongruence between internal gender and external embodiment. Trans people may also exemplify visible temporal contradictions by rapidly aging following hormonal replacement therapy. The tempo of a marginal, queer life inherently confuses or disrupts the conventional flow of time; queer lives do not progress the same way as other lives, and may experience time distortions or delay (Halberstam 89). Queer or trans time is often "halted", past and future tenses are blurred, simultaneously distant and present (Israeli-Nevo 38). Tempo, patterning, and repetition relate to both temporality and poetry; through text, poets can construct a body and bodily timeline that is complex, multiple, that is not legible, the way the state requires the trans body to appear. Poetry allows trans people to make sense of their embodiment, and to complicate it. Drawing on combined critical methodologies from literary studies and queer theory, through close reading I will examine how variations of poetic form, and language, from the intelligible to the obscure, might represent the contractions of trans embodiment, and evaluate how trans poets situate the body in and through time. Beginning with an overview, chapter 1 will survey the themes apparent in recent trans poetry; subsequent chapters will focus on specific authors, examining their work and use of form, including Baez Bendorf's inclination towards rule-bound forms, and Samuel Ace's use of prose poetry. In openly hostile environments, contradictory gendered presentation may incite violence; in the poetic imaginary, the poet has agency over where to place contradictions. This research will explore how seemingly incongruous ideas may inhabit a text; how 'pluralistic, even contradictory identities' (Dickon 31) can be expressed and coexist within the same poem. Creative Component'Boxing Day' will explore the experience of waiting for an assessment, alongside themes of isolation and embodiment. The poems will be arranged sequentially, covering the span of 3 years.