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This article investigates transgender women’s social and linguistic issues as well as their identity struggles in American novels have closely analyzed. The selected novels The Danish Girl (Ebershoff, The Danish Girl, 2000) and Nevada (Binnie, Nevada, 2013) deal with the social and linguistic challenges of trans women’s life journey. These novels demonstrate the intertwined social and linguistic relationships with gender performance. Sexual orientation and its multiple layers are woven around the relationship in the fields of anthropology and linguistics. It is significant to study day-to-day issues in trans women’s life. These anthropological narratives examine in detail trans women’s voices through critical gender, language and anthropological-linguistic theories. In sum, these two selected novels present a male-to-female gender transitional journey through the lens of gender consciousness, sexual orientation and consciousness of gender identity. In the analysis of these novels, this research finds that the (trans)gendering transition is a challenge for trans women and this has been represented by characters like Lili and Maria.
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Roshan K., M., Wen, X. (Trans)Gendering transition and identity struggle in The Danish girl and Nevada. SN Soc Sci 3, 80 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00665-z
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