Transgender Experience ─ Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility

"This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, continental Europe, and South Africa, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on intimacy, erotics, agency, and experientiality. The volume covers the 1950s to the present day and examines autobiographical accounts, films featuring passing and various stages of transitioning, as well as interviews with trans people. "--

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at the University Paris 13 Sorbonne-Paris-Cite, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2013); Between Rites and Rights (2007); The African Palimpsest (2007); and Tempests after Shakespeare (2002). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text.

David Coad is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Valenciennes, France. He is the author of Prophete dans le desert: Essais sur Patrick White (1997), Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities (2002) and The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality, and Sport (2008).