Grenzen der Überschreitung

Transgender, trans-culturalism, transnationalism - `trans' concepts are experiencing a political and academic boom. They bring with them the demand to open up socio-cultural identities. But the borders of national, social and corporeal spaces, which have now become fluid, threaten to re-solidify into traditions and forms of neo-racism: thus, values of the bourgeois nuclear family and right wing populist positions are not just being continually brought up, but are being actively reproduced in various media and social channels. For this reason, the essays in this volume probe into the processes through which trans-concepts essentialize themselves - and at which normative frontiers do they come to grief?

Stephanie Lavorano (M.A.) promoviert und lehrt an den Universitäten Gießen und Tübingen. Carolin Mehnert (M.A.) promoviert an der Universität Tübingen. Sie betreut das Forschungsprojekt »Körper im Visier«. Ariane Rau (M.A.) forscht zu Konzepten der Transkulturalität innerhalb der aktuellen globalen Literaturen in Berlin und Tübingen.