Jeanette Winterson and the Ungendered Narrator
Jeanette Winterson and the Ungendered Narrator

Summary/Abstract: This paper about Winterson and the totalizing body aims to deal with the ungendered as well as gendered body from the perspective of her novel Written on the Body which appeared in 1992. The novel is a story of love and loss, but Winterson has managed to create that rare thing - an original novel about love. The storyteller of the book falls in love with Louise who is married to a cancer specialist called Elgin. Interestingly enough, Winterson never reveals the gender of the storyteller and we are left to work out for ourselves whether the story deals with a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. Louise leaves Elgin and moves in with the storyteller, who is unaware of the fact that the beloved is seriously ill.

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