Emma Bond is Senior Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her previous publications include Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini (2012), and the co-edited volumes Freud and Italian Culture (2009), Il confine liquido: rapporti letterari e interculturali fra Italia e Albania (2013), Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative (2015) and Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture (2016).

1. 1. Introduction. 'Trans-scripts'

2. Chapter 2. 'Signing with a scar': Inscriptions, Narration, Identity

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Skin Knowledge

2.3 Skin Memory

2.4 Skin Stories

2.5 Conclusions

3. Chapter 3. Trans-gender, trans-national: Crossing binary lines

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Out in public: Locating the trans- self

3.3 Vergine giurata

3.4 Princesa

3.5 Blackass Fairytales: A drift toward cyborg conclusions

4. Chapter 4. Trans-national mothering: Corporeal trans-plantations of care

4.1 Introduction

4.3 Interrupted maternity

4.4 Substitutive mothering

4.5 Conclusions

5. Chapter 5. Revolting folds: Disordered and disciplined bodies

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Disordered consumption

5.3 Hard bodies

5.4 Conclusions

6. Chapter 6. Absent bodies, haunted spaces

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Linguistic hauntings: Specters of nation spaces

6.3 Trans-national memory and haunting commemorations

6.4 Conclusions

7. 7. Afterword