(TRANS-)GENDERED METAPHORS: ON TRANSITIONING IN NIETZSCHE’S AESTHETICS

• Authors: Danielle Verena Kollig
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Hostility towards transsexualism has not only persisted in non-academic communities, but also in academic scholarships, based not only on identifications of gender with sexuality and sexual identity, but also on the linguistic conventions of dichotomies of matter and ideas. Nietzsche’s aesthetics not only challenges this tradition of linguistically constructed dichotomies, but also the exclusive separation between genders and sexual identities. Referring to The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the article examines how Nietzsche’s ideas of language as a system of metaphors contributes to an understanding of transgender respectively transsexual issues as non-regressive expressions of selfhood, challenging rather than confirming gender dichotomies.

Keywords

EN

gender; sexual identities; transsexualism; metaphor; language

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 195-207

Contributors

author

Danielle Verena Kollig

• University of Virginia Charlottesville, U.S.A.