This is Not a Stunt - Softcover

Nichols, Cath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908853867 ISBN 13: 9781908853868

Verlag: Valley Press, 2017

Alle Exemplare dieser ISBN-Ausgabe

0 Gebraucht

4 Neu

Von EUR 12,61

In these poems, living with disability or being trans are not tragedies to overcome but ways of being, with their own humour, romance, stories and mundanity.

Embracing the ordinary (‘We’re middle-aged, of course. Life rolls on’) and the remarkable, Cath Nichols revisits her childhood in New Zealand and her teenage years in Kent, before crossing several decades (and haircuts) on the gay scene in Manchester.

At the heart of the collection is a sequence, ‘Bo(d)y-in-waiting’, a forthright and intimately observed narrative of Nichols’s partner as a trans teenager in an unwitting decade, thwarted and misunderstood at every turn by vacuous doctors and oblivious teachers. Readers will discover why ‘each body is an act of becoming’, and be left with a new appreciation of what makes us human.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

�ber die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cath Nichols is a poet and playwright. She has previously published two pamphlets and one poetry collection and has had some of her short work broadcast on BBC Radio. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Her research interests include areas of writing and performance that challenge ‘the norm’, gender studies, postcolonial theory and queer theory and how disability is conceived and presented in literature and art. She is on the steering committee for the Research Seminar Programme in Literary Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University.

��ber diesen Titel� kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.