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Gender and Genre: An examination of Jeanette Winterson's disruption to the western gender binary
Abstract Category: Arts
Course / Degree: english literature
Institution / University: University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Published in: 2009
This study focuses on Jeanette Winterson’s disruption of the restrictive western gender binary, examining how Winterson interrogates culturally articulated gendered identities and explores the expectations that are imposed upon the female protagonists within the texts as a result. I will further consider the narrative strategies, such as the reconfiguration of key cultural meta-narratives, utilised by Winterson in her disruption of both gendered identities and gender expression. Moreover, an examination of these techniques creates a perspective into the previously overlooked liminal space, allowing Winterson to present the implications of gender regulation upon the individual protagonists throughout the three primary texts; Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry and The Passion, more explicitly.
This study will also closely analyse the transgender characters as subjects of the liminal space, examining the ways in which their characterisation enables Winterson to present gender as a continuum, embracing the diversity of genders that are made conceivable through this interruption of the dualistic binary. Finally, this dissertation examines Winterson presentation of gender being brought into effect through the repeated performance of gendered norms, ultimately demonstrating that gender is not inherent but appropriated and therefore interchangeable.
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gender, binary, winterson
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Submission Details: Dissertation Abstract submitted by shelley Bullen from United Kingdom on 16-Mar-2010 15:19.
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