'A becoming of winged creatures': Unruly Bodies and Hidden Transcripts in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Thirty Names of Night.
This article uses Jack Halberstam's notions of 'hidden transcripts' and 'failure' as a starting point for analysing Zeyn Joukhadar's novel The Thirty Names of Night (2020). The 'hidden transcripts' – diaries, sketchbooks and journals that are unearthed throughout the novel – form a spectral archive...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 193 - 212 |
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Edinburgh University Press
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