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Reimagining Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Contemporary English Literature: Queer, Non-Binary, and Intersectional Narrative Strategies

Author(s) Krishna Kumar Dhar Dubey
Country India
Abstract Contemporary English-language literature has become a crucial site for rethinking gender, sexuality, and identity amid shifting social vocabularies and intensified debates about embodiment, belonging, and recognition. Recent fiction foregrounds queer, trans, and non-binary lives not only through representation but also through formal innovation—polyphony, epistolary address, fragmented temporality, speculative estrangement, and genre-mixing—techniques that disrupt patriarchal and heteronormative narrative logics. Guided by feminist and queer theoretical lineages (gender performativity, anti-binary critique, and intersectionality), this paper examines how selected contemporary texts stage identity as relational, contested, and historically situated rather than stable or essential. Through close, theory-informed reading of four influential case studies—Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Torrey Peters’ Detransition, Baby, and Akwaeke Emezi’s writing on gendered being—this study argues that contemporary literature “reimagines” identity by (i) shifting from disclosure narratives to structural critiques of power, (ii) rendering gender as lived practice and social negotiation, and (iii) using narrative form itself as a mode of resistance. The paper concludes that contemporary English literature performs cultural work: it expands interpretive frameworks for gender/sexual diversity while simultaneously questioning the limits of identity categories and the institutional conditions that make some lives more “legible” than others.
Keywords Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Identity; Contemporary Literature; Feminism; Intersectionality; Trans Studies; Narrative Form
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-14
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