Nonbinary Jane Austen

A bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century. Instead, Washington argues, Austen leverages the generic restraints of the novel to write a disguised autofiction in which Austen imagines herself as transgender and works to abolish gender exclusivity altogether. In doing so, she establishes a politics that ushers in a future beyond the cisheteronormative binary, one built on plurality and possibility.

• | Author: Chris Washington
• | Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 07, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00106 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1517917581
• | ISBN-13: 9781517917586