Dear Herculine
Publisher
Ahsahta Press
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9781934103579
Pages
91 pages
Genre
historical
Format
poetry
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
A book- length epistolary collection of hybrid-, trans-, and inter-genre prose, DEAR HERCULINE is an intertextual project that recalls portions of the 19th-century French hermaphrodite Herculine Barbin's memoirs, discovered and re- published by Michel Foucault. The medical reassignment of Herculine's gender eventually led to his/her death in February of 1868. Herculine's experiences are set against and interwoven into the author's experiences as an intersexed body through the epistolary form.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Transgender; Intersex; Gay/Lesbian; gay; lesbian; transgender teenager; intersex teenager
Main Character
intersex
Race/Ethnicities
multiple
Family Formation
mother and father
LGBTQ+
male/male; female/female; intersex person
Keywords
operation; philosophy; shame; bodies
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Apps, Aaron, "Dear Herculine" (2015). Diverse Families. 968.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/968