Boxing Day: Time and Contradiction in Transgender Poetry

这个研究项目将检查从跨性别诗人，包括奥利弗贝兹Bendorf和塞缪尔王牌最近的工作，并批判性地评估，通过密切的阅读，他们如何呈现在跨性别的生活和身体固有的矛盾，他们如何使他们的体现和复杂化的意义，以及他们如何跨跨身体和通过时间。创造性的组成部分，"节礼日"是一个完整的散文诗集解决性别转变的经验，在爱尔兰的背景下。“节礼日”探讨了解离和焦虑的主题，并详细介绍了无限期等待医疗保健对心理健康的影响。批判性的跨性别诗歌是一种媒介，通过这种媒介，一种新的性别认同语言可以出现（Ladin 637），也是跨性别作家重新获得他们的性别如何在文本上被“阅读”的机构的场所（Merrydew 29）。自2015年以来，诗人Jos Charles，Kayleb Rae Candrilli和奥利弗Baez Bendorf各自发布了两个系列，即所谓的跨可见性年。Samuel Ace自90年代初以来一直在出版，并已被收录在Troubling the Line（2013）和We Want It All（2020）中。他的早期散文诗最近被编辑并重新出版为Meet Me There（2019）。通过对这些诗人最近的作品集的仔细阅读和分析，本研究将探讨他们如何在作品中协商身体和语言的矛盾，并在性别、化身、名字、代词和时态可能不一致的自我叙述中导航。如果跨性别者被允许进入医疗机构，则跨性别者的经历必须是清晰和正规的。然而，作为一个跨性别主体生活，就是居住在矛盾之中;在内在性别和外在体现之间表现出明显的不协调。跨性别者也可能通过激素替代疗法后的快速衰老来消除可见的时间矛盾。边缘的节奏，酷儿生活固有地混淆或破坏了传统的时间流;酷儿生活不像其他生活那样进步，可能会经历时间扭曲或延迟（Halbertenstein 89）。酷儿或跨时间往往是“停止”，过去和未来时态是模糊的，同时遥远和现在（以色列-Nevo 38）。克里思、模式和重复都与时间性和诗歌有关;通过文本，诗人可以构建一个身体和身体的时间轴，它是复杂的、多重的、不可辨认的，就像国家要求跨体出现的方式一样。诗歌允许跨性别者理解他们的身体，并使之复杂化。借助文学研究和酷儿理论的综合批评方法，通过仔细的阅读，我将考察诗歌形式和语言的变化，从可理解到晦涩，如何代表跨性别者的收缩，并评估跨性别者诗人如何在时间和时间中重塑身体。首先概述，第1章将调查的主题明显在最近的跨诗歌，随后的章节将集中在特定的作者，检查他们的工作和使用的形式，包括贝兹本多夫的倾向，对规则约束的形式，和塞缪尔埃斯的使用散文诗。在公开敌对的环境中，矛盾的性别表现可能会煽动暴力;在诗歌的想象中，诗人有权力将矛盾置于何处。本研究将探讨如何看似不协调的想法可能居住在一个文本，如何“多元，甚至矛盾的身份”（狄肯31）可以表达和共存于同一首诗。创意组件“节礼日”将探索等待评估的经验，以及隔离和体现的主题。这些诗歌将按顺序排列，涵盖3年的跨度。

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.