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Butch Geography

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Overview

In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay "Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves," Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: "Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: 'i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body' ... This is [Waite's] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence -- to get around English's pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and..."

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  • ISBN-13: 9781936797257
  • ISBN-10: 1936797259
  • Publisher: Tupelo Press
  • Publish Date: January 2014
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.23 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.34 pounds
  • Page Count: 72

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