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Degree
Master of Arts
Program
Media Studies
Supervisor
Susan Knabe
Abstract
Born Again explores how the alien-hybrid character Concrete from the eponymous comic can be used to generate understanding of transgender (trans) lives. I use Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's concept of reparative reading in order to formulate an understanding of Concrete that generates new theoretical insight into trans lives, while also ensuring the development of what Viviane Namaste calls “ethical trans theory.” Born Again argues that even though Concrete does not “look like a transgender person is supposed to,” his experiences of gender dissonance and queer optimism allow him to act as a source of amelioration and pleasure for readers who are attentive to the queer consequences of his behaviour.
Recommended Citation
Raymond, Justin, "Born Again Hard : Transgender Subjectivity in Paul Chadwick's Concrete" (2012). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 469.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/469
Included in
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons