The Traumatic Consequences of Becoming a Transgender in Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl

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10.2991/978-2-38476-313-9_49How to use a DOI?

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Transgender; Trauma; Resistance; Suicide

Abstract

The issues of transgender is becoming more or more common not only in real life but also in works of literature in the modern and postmodern eras. However, these issues are still vulnerable and controversial ones as well as not being discussed openly among the laymen. The aim of this paper is to analyse the traumatic consequences of becoming a transgender in Meredith Russo’s novel entitled If I Was Your Girl. The focus of analysis is on the verbal and physical bullying, verbal resistance from patriarchal figures, parents’ divorce and attempted suicide, and moving to another town/school. This study helps to critically and academically understand one side of being a transgender that is a complicated phenomenon. There are three concepts to support the analysis; namely, the concept about transgender, the concept about trauma, and the concept about bullying. The methods applied are library research method, close reading technique, qualitative research method, and contextual research method. The result shows that becoming a transgender is not only a difficult decision but also entails various terrible events before and after the decision. All these represent the traumatic consequences that must be faced by the transgender. Regarding the multifaceted issues of transgender, the topic of transgender endlessly opens various new paths of studies to be taken by many researchers.

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AU  - Ratna Asmarani
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TI  - The Traumatic Consequences of Becoming a Transgender in Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl
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