The Power of the Ordinary Subversive in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4774358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy Hargreaves (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-16 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400068 |
| OpenAlex | W1977816031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
In Jackie Kay's award-winning novel, Trumpet (1998), the main character Joss Moody, a celebrated jazz trumpet player, is discovered upon his death to be anatomically female. The essay traces both postmodern and humanist affirmations of constructions of self-hood. Situating Virginia Woolf's version of a metaphysical and escapist androgyny as one kind of aesthetic against the material politics of the transgendered subject, the essay argues that Kay's novel can be seen as part of a 20th century tradition of literature and film which satirizes, parodies and painfully exposes the discontinuities of dominant sex-gender systems. The essay ends by arguing that Kay also develops these systems by imbricating sex and gender within a series of dislocated familial, sexual and racial identities, beginning with the arrival of Joss's African father in Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century
Art · Art history · Character (mathematics) · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Humanism · Jazz · Literature · Metaphysics · Politics · Postmodernism · Power (physics) · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |