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- Title
Reinventing the Self in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
- Authors
Rinawmi, V. L.
- Abstract
This article attempts to advocate that the struggle for the construction of the self is more meaningful than the denial of the true self, the latter being a domain that has often been imposed upon by society and religious doctrine. Jeanette Winterson is an inventive postmodern lesbian author whose fictions explores the nature and varieties of erotic love. Winterson chooses to render her life story in a narrative mode which straddles the generic divide between fiction and autobiography, in the production of a semi-autobiographical fiction, with an accompanying alter ego of the same name as hers 'Jeanette' in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit because she wanted to reinvent herself as a fictional character.
- Subjects
WINTERSON, Jeanette, 1959-; RELIGIOUS doctrines; RELIGIOUS differences; FICTION; ORANGES; FICTIONAL characters; DESIRE
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 3, p75
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article