Introduction: Contextualizing Trans Narratologies

Abstract

Prefatory Note: While we have aimed to write this introduction with one voice, we have at times felt it important to differentiate between us, highlighting a dialogic process. As Cody is trans and Chiara is not, our positionalities result in different inflections when discussing transness. This situation is not only inevitable but potentially very generative when forming a trans narrative studies that, on the one hand, is adamant in centering trans people and, on the other, also calls upon cis people to do the work; trans methodologies, politics, and justice should not be viewed as the niche interest of a few but as necessary for the liberation of all. The sections following our names in bold are in our individual voices, and unmarked paragraphs are written together with one voice.