ABSTRACT This article proposes the use of transgender theory within medieval studies as both a productive and a politically significant optic. The article employs transgender theory to effect a new reading of the miraculous transformation of the character of Blanchandin/e, in the fourteenth-century French chanson de geste, Tristan de Nanteuil, from female to male. First, the often-overlooked importance of Judith Butler’s analysis of sex and gender for the understanding of transgender and non-normatively-gendered identities is addressed. Next, using theoretical work by Deleuze, and by Deleuze and Guattari, the article demonstrates how the rhizomatic and folding structures that a transgender reading of Blanchandin/e’s transformation brings to light cohere with the series of rhizomes and folds which structure the genealogical logic of the text as a whole. The family tree of Tristan de Nanteuil is shown to answer to queer, rhizomatic, and folding imperatives. In this way, the article demonstrates that the text’s transgender genealogy contradicts the anti-generative model of queerness proposed by queer theory’s antisocial turn.

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特里斯坦·德南特伊的变性家谱

摘要本文提出跨性别理论在中世纪研究中的应用，既有生产力，又有政治意义。这篇文章运用跨性别理论，重新诠释了十四世纪的法国香颂（Tristan de Nanteuil）从女性到男性的Blanchandin / e角色的神奇转变。首先，解决了朱迪思·巴特勒（Judith Butler）对性别进行的分析对于理解跨性别和非规范性别身份的重要性，这一点经常被忽略。接下来，利用Deleuze，Deleuze和Guattari的理论工作，这篇文章说明了变性人对Blanchandin / e的转化的跨性别阅读如何使根茎和褶皱与构成整个族谱逻辑的一系列根茎和褶皱相融合。特里斯坦·德·南特伊（Tristan de Nanteuil）的家谱显示出对同志，发根和折叠命令的回答。通过这种方式，本文证明了文本的跨性别家谱与酷儿理论的反社会转向提出的反酷儿的反生成模型相矛盾。