Ambiguous Sexual Identity And Narratological Implications in Jeanette Winterson’s "Written On The Body"
Ambiguous Sexual Identity And Narratological Implications in Jeanette Winterson’s "Written On The Body"
Author(s): Eleonora Olivia Bălănescu Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: "Despite the equivocal reception accorded to her work, Jeanette Winterson has gradually risen to prominence as a writer who interrogates the dominant contemporary models of history, re-assesses power relations between the sexes and actively seeks to represent and inscribe new female experience, explores the relations between language, truth and representation and asserts the power relationship between the reader and text. ..."
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 76-85
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English