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"The way you wave your hat": performativity and self-invention in Jackie Kay's "Trumpet" and Duncan Tucker's "Transamerica"

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Kay's "Trumpet" and Tucker's "Transamerica" make explicit use of transgender subjects to deal with the intricate and hybrid nature of identity. These characters dismantle their surrounding universe where family choices and social identifications can be no longer predetermined. Likewise, as paradigmatic queer texts, both stories transgress conventional categories and paradoxically, their epistemological collapse turns into a powerful source of meaning, inasmuch as those categories -sex, gender, nationality, race, family, genealogy- are eventually confronted with their own contingency and their openness for new meanings. Through the exploration of overt themes as adoption, jazz, nomadism and transsexuality -which work also as powerful metaphors for the fluidity and precariousness of the Self- these authors align themselves with the performativity paradigm in their assumption that identity must be invented and reinvented. In this context, the transgender subject becomes the epitome of instability and diasporic meaning, generating a scenario of ambiguity which invites alternative ways of coping with subjectivity.

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"The way you wave your hat": performativity and self-invention in Jackie Kay's "Trumpet" and Duncan Tucker's "Transamerica"

Author: Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina
Publisher: Universidad de Huelva, Servicio de Publicaciones
Year: 2007
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“The way you wea you ha ”: Pe o ma i i y and sel -in en ion in Jackie Kay’s
T umpe and Duncan Tucke ’s T ansame ica
Ca olina Sánchez-Palencia Ca azo
Uni e sidad de Se illa
Jackie Kay’s T umpe and Duncan Tucke ’s T ansame ica make explici use o ansgende
subjec s o deal wi h he in ica e and hyb id na u e o iden i y. Func ioning as des abilizing agen s, hese
cha ac e s disman le hei su ounding uni e se whe e amily choices and social iden i ica ions can be no
longe ixed and p ede e mined. Likewise, as pa adigma ic quee ex s, bo h s o ies ansg ess
con en ional ca ego ies and pa adoxically, hei epis emological collapse u ns in o a powe ul sou ce o
meaning, inasmuch as hose ca ego ies –sex, gende , na ionali y, ace, amily, genealogy-- ha so
s ongly de e mine he subjec ’s iden i y and his/he sense o belonging a e e en ually con on ed wi h
hei own con ingency and hei openness o new meanings. Th ough he explo a ion o o e hemes as
adop ion, jazz, nomadism and anssexuali y –which wo k also as powe ul me apho s o he luidi y and
p eca iousness o he Sel -- hese au ho s align hemsel es wi h he pe o ma i i y pa adigm o Judi h
Bu le ’s and o he quee heo is s in hei assump ion ha iden i y –mo e an imagina y cons uc ion o
desi e and an asy han an essen ial o empi ical gi en-- mus be in en ed and ein en ed. In his con ex ,
he ansgende subjec becomes he epi ome o ins abili y and diaspo ic meaning, and like a so o
“s ange a ac o ” gene a es a scena io o ambigui y which in i es al e na i e ways o coping wi h
subjec i i y and i s social pe cep ion.
T umpe , Jackie Kay’s i s no el is loosely inspi ed in he ue s o y o he
Ame ican Jazz musician Billy Tip on who li ed and wo ked as a man du ing he 40’s
and 50’s and, upon his dea h, was disco e ed o be a woman, causing a emendous
shock among his child en, ex-wi es, band-ma es, iends and audience. Kay mo es his
episode o con empo a y B i ain and makes i in e sec wi h ques ions o ace and
na ionali y hus c ea ing a ic ional mosaic o non-essen ial iden i ies ha became so
success ul in he so-called “quee 90’s” ha i was awa ded wi h he 1998 Gua dian
Fic ion P ize.
He no el s a s wi h he dea h o Joss Moody, a Sco s black jazz umpe e , and
a icula es he di e en eac ions o he doc o ’s and egis a ’s e ela ion, a e hei
ou ine inspec ion o he co pse, ha he is (o a he was) a woman. Then he na a i e
un olds polyphonically in o he h ee majo es imonies cons i u ing he cen al melody
o he s o y: hose o Millie, his widow; Colman, his adop ed son, and Sophie, a abloid
jou nalis eage o publish a sensa ionalis biog aphy o Joss (bo n Josephine). Apa
om hese majo con ibu ions, he na a i e includes he oices o o he people, some
o hem only angen ially ela ed o he deceased: like he une al di ec o , he egis a ,
he doc o , a d umme , he cleane , and a school iend.
Like in a jazz pe o mance, whe e sc ip s a e displaced by imp o isa ion, he
pos humous s o y o his c oss-d esse is o ganized a ound di e en combina ions,
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addi ions, and e sions o a “ u h” ha in he end emains elusi e, and almos
i ele an . Since his is a pos -mo em accoun we ne e hea Joss’s own oice and we
ge o know him only h ough o he s’ oblique e sions o him, he esul being a plu al,
agmen a y and jazz-like composi ion.
Jackie Kay has decla ed in se e al in e iews how deeply jazz and blues
hy hms ha e gone in o he w i ing (Se e in 2002; Gish 2004); and one can indeed ace
ha music in T umpe : h ough i s lexible s yle, i s hyb id quali y and i s imp o ised
a ia ions in he guise o o e lapping oices and es imonies. As Louis A ms ong said,
"Jazz is music ha 's ne e played he same way once", which gi es au ho s and
pe o me s occasions o endless ein en ion. Tha is why, when playing his umpe ,
Joss “looked eal and un eal like a an asy o himsel . All jazz men a e an asies o
hemsel es, ein en ing he Coun s and Dukes and A ms ongs, imi a ing hem” (190).
Jazz, hen, is a heme in he no el bu also a me apho o he ins abili y and
p eca iousness o iden i y, inasmuch as i o e s a libe a ing space o in-de ini ion whe e
Joss can s ip o any no ma i e ca ego ies:
When he ge s down, and he doesn’ always ge down deep enough, he looses his sex, his
ace, his memo y. He s ips himsel ba e, akes e e y hing o , ill he’s ba ely
human...All his sel collapses –his idiosync asies, his pe sonali y, his ego, his sexuali y,
e en, inally, his memo y. All o i alls away like laye s o skin unw apping. He
unw aps himsel wi h his umpe , down a he bo om, ace o ace wi h he ac ha he
is nobody. (131)
When playing his umpe he seems o ha e a i ed a “ he unbea able ligh ness o
being”, ha in which he sel ( he phan asma ic sel ) explodes in o million sel es
disman ling any no ion o a uni a y iden i y and eme ging ins ead only as simulac a:
“Sco land. A ica. Sla e y. F eedom. He is a gi l. A man. E e y hing, no hing. He is
sickness, heal h. The sun, he moon. Black, whi e. No hing weighs him down.”(136)
The allusion o he unw apping o he sel e okes ha ouching ecu en image
o he un a elling o he bandages w apped a ound Joss’s ches ha he had o change
e e y day o his adul li e wi h he silen complici y o his wi e Millie. I has he
solemni y o a i ual, he sensuali y o a s ip- ease ha , a om being obscene,
esembles he eade ’s ac o un a elling he /his s o y. A s o y whe e he echoes o
quee heo y esona e h ough he delinea ion o his de-iden i ied, de-speci ied subjec
inhabi ing a so o no-man/no-woman’s land.
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I “being nobody” is he bes exp ession o a quee and non-essen ialis
pos mode n sel , “being someone else” (a ecu en mo i in he s o y and in some o
Kay’s poems) is also indica i e o he p o ean and con ingen na u e o iden i y. As
Joss ema ks in his will, e e yone bea s a alse name o would ha e liked o be someone
else (276). I is no only his own case, ha o a woman passing as a man; ac ually mos
cha ac e s in he no el unde go a simila p ocess o impe sona ion, which sugges s ha
pe haps i migh no be such an abe an ac , bu some hing inhe en o ou e sa ile
human condi ion. Thus, o ins ance, Millie, in he mou ning, wishes she we e a gi l
again and, in a passage ull o Lacanian o e ones, ha dly ecognizes he own e lec ion
in he mi o ; Edi h, Joss’s elde ly mo he , complains ha he daugh e has no isi ed
he o a long ime and ea s ha , as a consequence, she migh loose he own iden i y,
he one ha is gi en o us by ou “signi ican o he s”: “Nobody knows he like
Josephine knew he . And i nobody knows you, how can you be you sel ? Edi h could
be somebody di e en e e y day and mos p obably nobody would no ice” (221); o
Colman’s gi l iend, who is called Melanie a e a dead sis e , “al hough i wasn’
nowhe e on he bi h ce i ica e” (117); and mos impo an , Colman himsel , whose
adop ed condi ion (like ha o Kay’s he sel ) o ces him in o an endless imagina y
c oss-cas ing: “[Y]ou could ha e been b ough up in ano he pa o he wo ld, wi h ich
pa en s, poo pa en s, Mo mons, communis s, ascis s, banke s, Ca holics, Me hodis s,
zoo-keepe s, se ial kille s. You could ha e gone s aigh o a cold o phanage” (46). As
Colman sugges s, he adop ees’s iden i y is necessa ily luid as hei pas is cons an ly
ein en ed and hei bi h pa en s always an asized.
Adop ion, like jazz, is a cen al heme in Kay’s no el, bu also a me apho o
he mul iplici y and ins abili y o he sel , and has been deeply explo ed in he amous
h ee- oice poem The Adop ion Pape s, which a icula es in a e y unsen imen al
he o ic he expe iences o he adop ed daugh e , he adop i e mo he and he bi h
mo he .
I do no qui e ag ee wi h Kay ha he e a en’ many adop ed people in
li e a u e, only in soap ope as (Gish 172). The e is a long adi ion o adop ion in
English li e a u e. O phans, adop ees, os e pa en s and misplaced child en a e
commonplace in Vic o ian no el and melod ama, a li e a y and his o ical con ex which
ied o s ess he ole nu u e ( e sus na u e) plays in shaping indi idual iden i y. These
na a i es a e s ongly in lec ed by class and he edi y, as adop ion always implies
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social, mo al and economic mobili y o he adop ees. Geo ge Elio ’s Silas Ma ne and
Daniel De onda cons i u e well-known examples o his adi ion.
Ye , Kay makes majo depa u es om ha canon as he s o y e ol es no
a ound he con en ional e ela ion and eco e y o biological o igins, bu a ound he
accep ance o he Fa he (male o emale) he son empo a ily denies o “kills” a e
eeling he has been be ayed by a “ ake” a he , who is also a “ ake man”. Thus wha
makes he app oach a esh one is he way she add esses issues o a he hood and
masculini y wi hin he adop ion plo . So i , in he pa ilineal economy, he a he is
supposed o p o ide he son wi h a social name and place and o ans e him his
malehood legacy, he e we obse e a double sub e sion o his “uni e sally
acknowledged u h”, because i is no only ha Joss is no Colman’s “ eal” (biological)
a he , bu he is no e en a “man”. Colman’s b u al and obscene language e lec s hese
masculinis anxie ies c ea ed by his a he ’s espassing gende bounda ies and his
h ea ening male hegemonic iden i y. His homophobic eac ion e eals a deep ea o
cas a ion a e his a he ’s example, as when he says “My a he didn’ ha e a p ick”
(66). And he is igh , “his a he didn’ ha e a p ick”, bu he did ha e a umpe , which
s ands as a subs i u e o he pa e nal phallus, a powe ul signi ie o alen , p es ige,
p i ilege and public ecogni ion. As any eade can pe cei e in Colman’s childhood
ecollec ions, his e ishis ic ela ion wi h “ his objec o desi e” (and he e o ic
conno a ions in i s desc ip ion should no go unno iced) mo i a es an oedipal i al y
wi h his mo he :
I goes in my a he ’s bed oom. I am six yea s old. I opens hei wa d obe. My daddy
keeps his umpe in he e. I opens he big sil e box, and he e i is, all shiny inside. I
ouched i ...Then I s okes i like I’ e seen my a he do and i pu s. I uns my inge s
o e he keys hen along he u , a he pu ple u in he box...Then my mom inded me.
I can’ make any hing up. She says, Colman, wha a e you doing? Ge ou o you
a he ’s umpe . So I close he sil e lid and push i back in o he wa d obe. Daddy
mus ha e o go en o ake his umpe , I says. I hope i doesn’ make him bad luck, I
says. (49)
Le me no ice ha , in he con ex o Colman’s con lic wi h Joss’s emascula ion (i.e.,
wi h “his no ha ing a p ick”), he son’s in a ua ion wi h his a he ’s “ins umen ”,
becomes qui e i onic.
Ano he di e ence wi h adi ional app oaches o adop ion lies in he ac ha
Kay in oduces ace issues in he a emp a na u alizing B i ish blackness. She succeeds
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in placing he no el in he con ex o he 70’s and 80’s deba e o e ans acial adop ion,
when placemen o black child en in whi e homes was conside ed by many as
“unna u al”, “a i icial” and con a y o he wel a e o child en who would eel
uncom o able g owing in a disapp o ing su ounding communi y. Con as ingly, in
choosing a mix-up amily (wi h in e acial ma iage and adop ion) Kay hin s ha acial
ma ching ends up ein o cing acialism and he dogma ic belie ha colou de e mines
des iny. In his sense, Colman’s unease abou his being imposed a no ma i e black
iden i y becomes e y signi ican : “Doesn’ eel com o able wi h ma es o his ha go
on and on abou A ica. I eels alse o him, ma es ha ge d essed up in A ican gea ,
wank on abou being A ican wi h a ucking cockney accen , man. Back o A ica is jus
un eal as a as Colman is conce ned. He’s ne e been o A ica, so how can he go
back?” (191). A eeling o aliena ion ha could be compensa ed by Joss’s “Fan asy
A ica” ( he i le o his i s g ea hi ), a s ongly emo ional ec ea ion o a u opian
na ion.
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Complica ed by bo h issues o gende and ace, Kay’s ideas abou adop ion
in i e a econcep ualiza ion o he Ca esian sel . In su passing he logic o he
biological and an Enligh enmen belie in iden i y as con e ed by blood and genealogy,
she sugges s al e na i e models o kinship, and, as Joss explains o his son, he
possibili y o c ea e one’s own ances y (e hnic, na ional and/o gene ic): “My a he
always old me he and I we e ela ed he way i ma e ed. He el ha way oo abou he
guys in his bands, ha hey we e all pa o some big amily. Some o hem we e whi e,
some black. He said hey didn’ belong anywhe e bu o each o he . He said you make
up you own bloodline, Colman. Make i up and ace i back. Design you own amily
ee.” (58)
I is in his ligh ha we could unde s and Joss’s inal le e whe e he e eals his
son nei he he “name o he a he ”, which would ha e p o ided he o hodox closu e
o he na a i e o masculini y, no he mo i es o his sexual passing (which would ha e
aced Colman back o an u opian “o igin” oo). This uncon en ional es amen (“Las
Wo d”) e ol es ins ead a ound a s o y ( he s o y o Joss’s own a he ) o
des abiliza ion, ans o ma ion, “quee ” lack o o igins and diaspo ic meaning: “E en
he name he was gi en, John Moo e, was no his o iginal name” (276); “his s o y could
be he s o y o any black man who came om A ica o Sco land” (271) In he end, he
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A no ion equi alen o Salman Rushdie’s “Imagina y Homelands” o “Indias o he Mind” and many
o he pos colonial igu a ions o home and place as con adic o y expe iences o he mig an subjec .

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only explana ion is ha hey a e all pa o he s o y o diaspo a: “Tha ’s he hing wi h
us: we keep changing names. We’ e all go ha in common. We’ e all changed names,
you, me and my a he . All o di e en easons. May be one day you’ll unde s and
mine.”(276) In he absence o a blood lineage Joss appeals o ha o he kind o ances y
and a ini y, and o he igh o e-in en ou sel es ou o an equally in en ed pas .
Al hough he lea es Colman he documen a y e idence abou his own pas (le e s,
pho os, ce i ica es), his ac ual ma e ial is displaced by he nos algia o emo ional
memo y whe e e e y hing, names, da es, o igin is dissol ed in he Sco ish og, adding
u he con usion and ambigui y o a s o y ha delibe a ely a oids a ixed e sion o
u h. Simila ly, he cold ac ici y o he doc o ’s and egis a ’s epo s and he
scandalous s o y designed by he jou nalis seem o be obscu ed by he luidi y and
inde e minacy o he p e ailing sen imen al es imonies. Thus, o ins ance, Millie lo ed
him as a husband, and his wi ely a i udes ein o ced Joss’s sel -in en ed masculini y;
Colman, a e coming o e ms wi h his oedipal con lic , will end up accep ing ha
“he’ll always be a daddy o [him]” (259); and e en Edi h, he only one who lo ed he
(he Josephine) as a woman, con esses she misses he daugh e .
The choice o he pe o ma i i y pa adigm aligns Kay wi h Judi h Bu le ’s well-
known heo ies, whe e iden i y is only he e ec o he subjec ’s social ep esen a ions
ha cons i u e him/he h ough he e y ac o hei epe i ion (1993a: 311-13) The lines
ha she selec ed as he p e ace o T umpe an icipa e his speci ic iew o gende (and
by ex ension o any iden i y) as a se o lea ned oles: “The way you wa e you ha /The
way you sip you ea/ The memo y o all ha /No, no! They can’ ake ha away om
me!” (Geo ge Ge shwin).
This cons uc i is pe spec i e in i es a b ie compa a i e analysis wi h Duncan
Tucke ’s ilm T ansame ica (2005), ano he s o y o ansgende a he hood, o he ness,
and ul ima ely accep ance. This independen oad-mo ie na a es he ad en u es and
misad en u es o B ee (bo n S anley) a p e-ope a i e male- o- emale anssexual who
disco e s she has a ebellious eenage son wi h whom she has o come o e ms be o e
he sexual e-assignmen su ge y. He e he play wi h gende achie es a ou -de- o ce
quali y, as he ilm ea u es a woman (Felici y Hu man) ac ing as a man ying o
become a woman. Thus, he mo ie s a s wi h he p o agonis ying o ind he igh
speaking pi ch, as one o he many challenges aced by a p e-op ans es i e, because,
like Joss Moody, B ee has o lea n how o build gende cues, bo h physical –in he
body, hai , clo hing, oice o mo emen —and beha iou al –conce ning he manne s,
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language, deco um o p o ocol, he esul being an awkwa d mix o male/ emale
manne isms. Ye , in T ansame ica, i is no only gende ha becomes e sa ile, bu
abo e all, sex, which is hus p esen ed as likely o be decons uc ed and econs uc ed.
In Bodies ha Ma e (1993) Judi h Bu le adicalizes he inqui ies she began in
Gende T ouble (1990) o e ing a e igu a ion o he ma e iali y o bodies and o he
powe o he e osexual no ma i i y o cons i u e he 'ma e ' o bodies, sex and gende . In
his ligh , anssexuali y, as i is depic ed in Tucke ’s ilm, dena u alizes he biological
sexed body and ede ines i s ma e iali y in e ms o he cul u al and social con ou s
delimi ing i . Thus, B ee decla es ha he body is a “wo k-in-p og ess” and in a
memo able con e sa ion wi h he /his menopausic mo he , hey will ha e o accep ha
eminini y is, o a g ea ex en , p os he ic, as o bo h o hem i is a ma e o ho mone
supply:
B ee Osbou ne: God, my cycle's all ou o whack.
Elizabe h Osbou ne: You don' ha e cycles!
B ee Osbou ne: Ho mones a e ho mones. You s and mine jus happen o come in
pu ple li le pills.
Fo many, sexual e-assignmen su ge y would end up ein o cing a so o body
ascism, and o a g ea ex en , ha would be he case o B ee, o whom ana omy can
de e mine who she is, o a leas how o he s see he , which amoun s o much he same
hing i you a e inclined o wan app o al o eel desi ed o e en jus o ge a li e o you
own. Bu his is only pa ially ue in a s o y ha a oids g appling wi h he in e ela ions
o gende and sex and p oposes ins ead an in es men in a i ice, ha is, in all he
pe o ma i e ges u es ha cons i u e subjec i i y and i s social pe cep ion.
As i is he case wi h mos anssexuals in hei sea ch o a new iden i y, B ee
ies o de ise o he sel no only a u u e bu also a pas , because, as Ka e Bo s ein
a gues, “ anssexuali y is he only condi ion in Wes e n cul u e o which he he apy is
o lie”.
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The p o agonis has spen he en i e li e coping wi h gende dyspho ia and
inally, when she is abou o ge id o he one hing ha p e en s he om being a eal
woman, she inds ha , much as she wan s o pu ha old sel behind he , he pas canno
be en i ely swep o . He he apis Ma ga e ad ises ha B ee should come o e ms
wi h who she was when she was S anley, and ha includes he son she a he ed ou o
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Ka e Bo ns ein is a d ag pe o me (a “T ansgende T ansexual Pos mode n Ti esias”) and gende
educa o who led one o he i s C oss-Gende Wo kshops aimed a decons uc ing gende . She is also
he au ho and pe o me in whose wo ks she p esen s a ypology o di e ence and ambigui y occupied
by ansgende is s, ans es i es, anssexuals, c oss-d esse s and all hose gende ou laws in-be ween one
hing and he o he .
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he only sexual expe ience as a man 17 yea s ago: "This is a pa o you body ha
canno be disca ded." I seems ha o he being a a he is he i onic p e- equisi e o
become a woman.
Tobby igno es ha his conse a i e-looking lady and Ch is ian missiona y o
he “Chu ch o he Po en ial Fa he ” is in ac his spe m dono , and his igno ance is he
s o y’s main sou ce o humou . Ha ing g own up as an o phan –and ha ing hus
expe ienced he p eca ious s a us o bas a ds who lack he ilia ion o social name
con e ed by he Fa he -- he ep oduces he con lic ha F eud de ined as pa o he
“Family Romance”, ha is, he son’s unconscious need o idealize his a he in o de o
pa ake o his omnipo ence (74-78). Hence, in a compensa o y s a egy, Tobby ends o
belie e his a he is an Ame ican Indian and he owne o a big house, and he dis ance
be ween he Real and he Imagined a he is i onically enla ged when he disco e s ha
he is only “hal -Jewish” and “hal -man”. His agg essi e eac ion esembles ha o
Colman Moody’s a e he c ucial e ela ion o his a he ’s iden i y, bu he e i is
agg a a ed by he us a ing ealiza ion ha he a he igu e (agg andized wi hin he
son’s imagina ion) is only an unglamo ous masque ade wi h whom Tobby canno
iden i y no de i e he necessa y nou ishmen and epa a ion. As i in an i onic wis o
he F eudian model he e u n o he homeland –“nos algia” is one o he meanings o
he my hic jou ney ac oss Ame ica he emba k upon—does no imply he e a desi e o
e u n o he body o he mo he (sempe ce issima), bu he encoun e wi h he a he
(sempe ince us) inca na ed in an ins able, e emina e and agmen ed sel . Tobby has
no home –no mo he because she is dead— o e u n o, “wha places him always and
ine i ably ab oad, in a o eign coun y”; nei he has he go a a he wi h whom o
es ablish a phallic (a ) ilia ion. B ee’s “ anishing male body” –a body in ansi ion, a
phan asma ic body—e okes he Lacanian no ions o desi e inasmuch as i s ands as he
“objec o desi e” ha is li e ally i e ie able and inde inable (Gallop148).
This nos algic a emp a u ning o a pas mo e au hen ic (and pala able) han
he p esen also a ec s B ee’s mo he who, epelled by he son’s choice o become a
woman, ies o idealize and e-in en he child by accommoda ing him o he e osexual
no ma i i y, as when she begs “Don' do his aw ul hing o you sel , please. I miss my
son”, and B ee answe s: “Mom, you ne e had a son.”
As in T umpe , cha ac e s in T ansame ica will ha e o assume al e na i es o
no ma i e pa en hood as he ansgende subjec becomes he des abilizing agen ha
disman les i s su ounding uni e se whe e amily choices and iden i ica ions can be no
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longe ixed and p ede e mined. Likewise, i could be a gued ha quee ex s ansg ess
con en ional ca ego ies (no only gende bina ies), bu , pa adoxically, hei
epis emological collapse is a powe ul sou ce o meaning, inasmuch as hose ca ego ies
–sex, na ionali y, ace, amily, genealogy-- ha so s ongly de e mine he subjec ’s
iden i y and his/he sense o belonging a e e en ually con on ed wi h hei own
con ingency and hei openness o new meanings.
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