"Witches and such like hags": Techous Sexuality and Rural Queer Identity in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' "The Scarecrow"

IF 0.1 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

Arizona Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-06-10 DOI:10.1353/arq.2021.0010

E. Banks

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Abstract:This article explores Elizabeth Madox Roberts' use of the colloquial term "techous" in her short story "The Scarecrow" to portray sexual difference in the rural American South. Referring to Jack Halberstam's work on rural queer identity, I discuss how techous, which is used to describe Joan, the story's protagonist, for her aversion to human touch, can be understood to represent a unique sexual identity. I analyze one of the story's central images—Joan's creation of a doppelgänger to scare away crows, which Roberts links symbolically to men—as a proto-trans* act, the creation of a body not defined by sex.

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期刊介绍： Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.