Suburbs, Supplementarity, and Transvestism in <The Roaring Girl>
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The primary purpose of the present essay is to explore how the sense of nation interacts with gender constructions. Through a close reading of Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s Roaring Girl, this essay illuminates how gender liminality is used for representing topographical in-betweenness. Since Judith Butler’s influential theory of gender as a “socially performative act,” critics have discussed transvestism mainly in terms of gender; however, transvestism has seldom been discussed as a geo-political phenomenon that is observable where proper national identities are compromised. Our critical attention in this essay is itinerant perambulating all over suburban areas in metropolitan London, and we discuss transvestism as a suburban phenomenon. The romantic and comic plot of The Roaring Girl is achieved by staging exclusion of transvestites, and the birth of the metropolis as an intra-national colonial authority is possible when it silences topographical and gender liminality. If cross-dressing is an allegory that expresses various cultural liminalities, one of the early modern metropolitanist desires is nothing other than to set the world apart in order to secure “proper” gender and sexuality.
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The primary purpose of the present essay is to explore how the sense of nation interacts with gender constructions. Through a close reading of Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s Roaring Girl, this essay illuminates how gender liminality is used for representing topographical in-betweenness. Since Judith Butler’s influential theory of gender as a “socially performative act,” critics have discussed transvestism mainly in terms of gender; however, transvestism has seldom been discussed as a geo-political phenomenon that is observable where proper national identities are compromised. Our critical attention in this essay is itinerant perambulating all over suburban areas in metropolitan London, and we discuss transvestism as a suburban phenomenon. The romantic and comic plot of The Roaring Girl is achieved by staging exclusion of transvestites, and the birth of the metropolis as an intra-national colonial authority is possible when it silences topographical and gender liminality. If cross-dressing is an allegory that expresses various cultural liminalities, one of the early modern metropolitanist desires is nothing other than to set the world apart in order to secure “proper” gender and sexuality.
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