The Costs of Passing in the Transvaal.
This essay anticipates twentieth-century arguments about the production of the ideal transgender subject as those who are harbingers of an extractive ethnonationalism and have a right to transnational mobility. In looking at Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883), this essay frames th...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 611 - 624 |
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