Transgressing boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's fiction

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Transgressing boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's fiction

Sonia Front

(Literary and cultural theory, v. 31)

Peter Lang, c2009

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Silesia, 2007

Includes bibliographical references

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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 cliches, 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.

Table of Contents

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.

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