He’s Humbert, I’m Dolores
Emily Witt, 21 May 2020
My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
Fourth Estate, 384 pp., £12.99, March 2020,978 0 00 834224 1 Show More
by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
Fourth Estate, 384 pp., £12.99, March 2020,
“... suffered doesn’t have to define a life completely. I kept returning to an optimistic aside by Jacqueline Rose in her essay on trans narratives in this paper (5 May 2016): ‘Trauma is not pathology but history.’ If Vanessa had emerged from her experience with her loyalty to Strane intact, it would fly in the face of the accepted evidence; it would ... ”