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Ghosting Transgender Historicity in Colette’s The Pure and the Impure
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 114-130
- 10.1353/esp.2013.0012
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This essay reads Colette’s The Pure and the Impure from the perspective of critical transgender historiography. It argues that the text’s effort to redeem certain forms of gender variance by purging them of any association with subculture, fashion, and time symptomatizes an acute anxiety about the historicity of gender transitivity.