Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction

By Sonia Front

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631589530
• ISBN13: 9783631589533
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.5"