Trans-Ing Disability Poetry at the Confluence

Abstract This essay offers a poetics of trans-ing at the confluence of disability culture and trans cultural expression, indigenous naming of the land and performance trance. It discusses work by genderqueer poet Eli Clare and by Anishinaabe poet Margaret Noodin before analyzing the process of a tra...

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Published in:TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Main Author: Kuppers, Petra
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2014
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-2815120
https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-pdf/1/4/605/485423/605.pdf
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Summary:Abstract This essay offers a poetics of trans-ing at the confluence of disability culture and trans cultural expression, indigenous naming of the land and performance trance. It discusses work by genderqueer poet Eli Clare and by Anishinaabe poet Margaret Noodin before analyzing the process of a translatory videopoem collaboration between Denise Leto and Petra Kuppers. One difference is not the same as another, but between experimental poetics, assemblage, and occupied land, we sound in the waters.