Characters Outside of Binaries: Gender and Intersexuality in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex

Doležálková, Ema

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Characters Outside of Binaries: Gender and Intersexuality in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex – Bc. Ema Doležálková

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Bc. Ema Doležálková

Bachelor's thesis

Characters Outside of Binaries: Gender and Intersexuality in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex

Abstract:

Tato práce rozebírá novelu Girl Meets Boy od Ali Smith a román Middlesex od Jeffreyho Eugenidese. Zabývá sa především zobrazením postav, které nezapadají do tradičních kategórií muž/žena a mužský/ženský. Věnuje sa také motivu vypravěčství v obou dílech a jeho vlivem na to, jak o sobě protagonisté smýšlejí a na jejich schopnost přijmout sami sebe a další postavy.

Abstract:

This thesis analyses Ali Smith’s novella Girl Meets Boy and Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel Middlesex, focusing on the portrayal of characters whose sex or gender does not fit into the traditional binaries of male/female and masculine/feminine. It deals with the motif of storytelling in both works and its influence on how the protagonists perceive themselves and their ability to accept themselves and other …more

Keywords

Ali Smith Jeffrey Eugenides Girl Meets Boy Middlesex gender intersexuality self-acceptance acceptance fluidity gender nonconformity representation

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 12. 5. 2017

Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/r5cwt/

Thesis defence

Date of defence: 13. 6. 2017
Supervisor: Ph.D. Stephen Paul Hardy
Reader: Mgr. Petra Fišerová

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DOLEŽÁLKOVÁ, Ema. \textit{Characters Outside of Binaries: Gender and Intersexuality in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex}. Online. Bachelor's thesis. Brno: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts. 2017. Available from: https://theses.cz/id/2pmpok/.

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