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The male gender script as self-representation in the poetry of Sándor Vay
The male gender script as self-representation in the poetry of Sándor Vay

Author(s): Zoltán Csehy
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Hungarian Literature
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Genderscript; Gender performativity; Queer; FTM (Female to male); Transgender; Hungarian poetry;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I have analysed the artistic manifestations of the ego-forming strategies of Sándor/Sarolta Vay (1859–1918), guided by the patterns of norm-following and norm-rejecting gender performativity and also by stepping outside of these patterns. Sándor Vay was born a woman but lived as a man, constructing his writer ego as a male author as well. This construction could be one form of queer masculinity based on corporeality. The first part of this paper demonstrates Vay’s career; the second analyses Vay’s poems published under a female name and those published later under a male name, investigating the strategies of textual creation of sexuality and gender.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 53-61
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English