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@ashinadash@hexbear.net So it’s been a while since I’ve finished a book (yay adult ADHD) but funny enough I actually know about Manhunt and other modern trans classics from this one booktuber I watch sometimes. I thought you might be interested in her content: she goes by Willow Talks Books on youtube.
I have watched Willow, I find the videos to be insufficiently deep-divey I guess. I could write tens of thousands of words dissecting the average A Novel, so a two minute segment of a ten minute video is like..........
Fair tbh, she's more of a reviewer than a video essayist so the videos take a lot of care to avoid spoilers. I do want to get back into reading, but I don't know how to balance it with all the other hobbies taking up space in my brain. I enjoy reading when I get around to it, but I also find myself forgetting it a lot of the time... maybe I should pick up some trans lit on thriftbooks and start from there
So uh, what exactly is an A Novel? I’ve seen you use that term before but I don’t know what it means and google was seemingly incapable of telling the difference between “an A novel” and “a novel” so I just got a ton of results about novels
Time for tinfoil hat shit!!!!
Okay it's a term I invented myself, sorry sorry. Uh broadly it involves litfic by trans people (usually white binary trans women, let's be real) but in a narrower sense it follows the chronology of novels that spawned out of Nevada or Topside Press - so Nevada itself, I've Got A Time Bomb by Sybille Lamb, Otros Valles by Jamie Berrout, Little Fish by Casey Plett, Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters, (as well as all her other works) and Manhunt by Gretchen Felker Martin.
Those are all the ones with really firm provable connections, like the authors know eachother or were featured in the same anthology or they directly reference eachothers' works, (Nevada in Otros Valles, Torrey Peters in Manhunt) and stuff. I also tend to include works of a similar mode like Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alisom Rumfitt or Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor, and sometimes you will catch me referencing other trans fiction, such as Sterling Karat Gold by Isobel Waidner or Little Blue Encyclopedia by Hazel Jane Plante. That's the skinny, and in the broadest sense it refers to my weird obsession with trans litfic.
The etymology is, uh you know books that are like "Book Title: A Novel"? Usually kinda pretentious, reserved for "literary fiction". Almost all of these books have that thing, and it should properly be called "The Trans A Novel" I guess.
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Oh that’s pretty clever!
I guess
Initially I was just the Nevada Enjoyer, but after Detrans came out I was like.... woah there's a whole subculture, this big interconnected spiderweb of dorks. I must study it 