The White Caribou in the Surgical Theatre: Intersex and Whiteness in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel

Katelyn   Dykstra

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue: Queer Bodies/Corps Queers

The White Caribou in the Surgical Theatre: Intersex and Whiteness in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel

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Submitted: January 27, 2022
Published: 2022-01-31

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How to Cite

Dykstra, K. . . (2022). The White Caribou in the Surgical Theatre: Intersex and Whiteness in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel. Studies in Canadian Literature, 46(1), 60–77. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32734

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[1] Ahmed, Sara. “A Phenomenology of Whiteness.” Feminist Theory, vol. 8, no. 2, 2007, pp. 149-68.

[2] Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2011.

[3] Brand, Dionne. A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. Penguin, 2002.

[4] Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. Routledge, 2004.

[5] Carpenter, Morgan. “The ‘Normalisation’ of Intersex Bodies and ‘Othering’ of Intersex Identities.” The Legal Status of Intersex Persons, edited by Jens M. Scherpe et al., Intersentia, 2018, pp. 455-514.

[6] Chafe, Paul. “‘Where the Mysterious and the Undefined Breathes and Lives’: Kathleen Winter’s Annabel as Intersex Text.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 39, no. 1, 2013, pp. 257-77.

[7] Clune-Taylor, Catherine. “Cisgendered Futures: Intersex Management under ‘Disorders of Sexual Development’ Treatment Model.” Hypatia, vol. 34, no. 4, 2019, pp. 690-712.

[8] Crawford, Isabella Valancy. “The Camp of Souls.” The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, edited by J.W. Garvin, William Briggs, 1905, pp. 52-55.

[9] De Szegheo-Lang, Naomi. “Disruptive Desires: Reframing Sexual Space at the Feminist Porn Awards.” Dryden and Lenon, editors, pp. 66-81.

[10] Dreger, Alice Domurat. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Harvard UP, 1998.

[11] Dryden, OmiSoore H., and Suzanne Lenon, editors. Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging. U of British Columbia P, 2015.

[12] Dryden, OmiSoore H. “Introduction: Interventions, Iterations, and Interrogations that Disturb the (Homo) Nation.” Dryden and Lenon, editors, pp. 3-18.

[13] Egale Canada Human Rights Trust. “Egale Canada Urges the Federal Government to Meet Domestic and International Human Rights Requirements of Intersex People on International Intersex Awareness Day.” Egale Canada Blog, egale.ca/egale-canadaurges-the-federal-government-to-meet-domestic-and-international-human-rightsrequirements-of-intersex-people-on-international-intersex-awareness-day/.

[14] Eng, David L., The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. Duke UP, 2010.

[15] Eugenides, Jeffery. Middlesex. Vintage, 2003.

[16] Feder, Ellen K. Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine. Indiana UP, 2014.

[17] Fee, Margery. “Romantic Nationalism and the Image of Native People in Contemporary

[18] English-Canadian Literature.” The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Thomas King et al., ECW Press, 1987, pp. 15-33.

[19] Francis, Margot. Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imagination. U of British Columbia P, 2011.

[20] Gadon, Sarah. “Canada Reads 2014: Panelist Sarah Gadon on Being Part of a Younger Generation.” CBC Player, CBC.ca, www.cbc.ca/player/play/2440197646.

[21] Holmes, Morgan. “Cal/liope in Love.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 3-4, 2007, pp. 223-32.

[22] Holmes, Morgan. “Rethinking the Meaning and Management of Intersexuality.” Sexualities, vol. 5, no. 2, May 2002, pp. 159-80.

[23] Hsu, Stephanie. “Ethnicity and the Biopolitics of Intersex in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex.” MELUS, vol. 36, no. 3, 2011, pp. 87-110.

[24] Magubane, Zine. “Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory.” Signs, vol. 39, no. 3, 2014, pp. 761-85.

[25] Malatino, Hilary. Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience. Nebraska UP, 2019.

[26] McKenzie, Stephanie. “Death, Rebirth, and Considerations of the ‘Indigenous’ in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel.” University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017, pp. 91-100.

[27] Morgensen, Scott Lauria. Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. U of Minnesota P, 2011.

[28] Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Vintage, 2007.

[29] Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Vintage, 1993.

[30] Neuhaus, Mareike. “Inventions of Sexuality in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 37, no. 1, 2012, pp. 123-40.

[31] Przybylo, Ela. Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality. Ohio State UP, 2019.

[32] Reis, Elizabeth. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. Johns Hopkins UP, 2009.

[33] Sommerville, Siobhan. “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994, pp. 243-66.

[34] TallBear, Kim. “Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sex and Family.” Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations, edited by Adele E. Clarke and Donna Haraway, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018, pp. 145-67.

[35] Thomson, Debra. “Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies: The Regulation of Interracial Relationships in North America.” Social and Legal Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, 2009, pp. 353-71.

[36] Wahab, Amar. “Unveiling Fetishnationalism: Bidding for Citizenship in Queer Times.” Dryden and Lenon, editors, pp. 35-48.

[37] Wall, Sean Saifa. “Standing at the Intersections: Navigating Life as a Black Intersex Man.” Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, vol. 5, no. 2, 2015, pp. 117-19.

[38] Winter, Kathleen. Annabel. Anansi Press, 2013.