Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction
Published on 29. December 2009
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-3-631-58953-3 (ISBN)
Description
The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroticism, language and time, constituting areas within which Winterson's characters seek their identity. As they contest and repudiate clichés, stereotypes and patterns, their journey of self-discovery is accomplished through transgression. The book analyzes how the subversion of phallogocentric narrative and scenarios entails the reenvisaging of relations between the genders and reconceptualization of female desire. The author attempts to determine the consequences of Winterson's manipulations with gender, sexuality and time, and her disruption of the binary system.
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Person
The Author: Sonia Front earned her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Silesia (Poland). She has published on cinema and English literature. Her research interests cover the issue of time as well as contemporary cinema. She teaches English literature and culture and American literature.
Content
Contents: Analysis of gender issues, love and eroticism, language and time as areas within which Winterson's characters seek their identity - The study of the subversion of phallogocentric narrative and its impact on genders - The consequences of Winterson's manipulations with gender, sexuality and time.