Eyes wide with it: Sex, surprise, and gender transformation in literary fiction

这篇批判性的创造性论文旨在解决这个问题，我们如何写性更好？它包括两个组成部分：1。一个批判性的调查，探索性活动是如何描绘在当代英语文学小说写的活着的作家，设置在今天。重点将是嵌入主流小说中的性写作-而不是作为色情小说销售的小说-并围绕作家米兰达七月，奇马曼达恩戈齐Adichie，艾菲尔麦克布赖德和玛吉纳尔逊，他们的工作与这个调查相互作用。一部名为《睁大眼睛》的小说，它将试图将“更好的”性写作--正如我在批判性调查中所探索和阐述的那样--整合到一部颠覆性主题规范的文学小说原著中（如下所述），并通过融合诗歌和散文来尝试语言形式的游戏。2012年夏天，在哈克尼，三名年轻女子，一名环保活动家和她残疾的母亲，以及一名男性青少年选择哑巴，发现他们的生活碰撞作为军情五处的监视使命发生在他们的街道。通过这些人物和事件，我将创造性地探索酒精和毒品，残疾，种族和性别影响性行为的方式。我将尝试“性别转换”描绘性化的机构的方式，挑战不平等的权力动态交叉不平等的基础，例如，通过语言选择，叙事的声音，和表征。我的方法将借鉴我在写我的处女作《让我像水一样》（Let Me Be Like Water，梅尔维尔之家，英国和美国，2018年）时获得的经验。

This critical-creative thesis aims to address the question, How do we write sex better? It comprises two components:1. A critical enquiry exploring how sexual activity is depicted in contemporary Anglophone literary fiction written by living writers, set in the present day. The focus will be on sex writing embedded within mainstream fiction - as opposed to fiction marketed as erotica - and centre around writers Miranda July, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Eimear McBride, and Maggie Nelson, whose work interacts with this enquiry.2. A novel entitled Eyes Wide With It, which will attempt to integrate "better" sex writing - as explored and articulated in my critical enquiry - within an original work of literary fiction that subverts thematic norms around sex (as unpacked below), and experiments with linguistic formal play by blending poetry and prose. In Summer 2012 in Hackney, three young women, an environmental activist and her disabled mother, and a male teenage elective mute, find their lives colliding as an MI5 surveillance mission takes place in their street. Through these characters and events, I will creatively explore the ways alcohol and drugs, disability, race, and gender impact sexual behaviours. I will attempt 'gender transformation' by depicting sexualised bodies in ways that challenge the unequal power dynamics underlying intersectional inequalities, for example, through linguistic choices, narrative voice, and characterisation. My approach will draw on the experience I gained writing my debut novel Let Me Be Like Water Melville House, UK & US, 2018).