Jeanette Winterson's Narratives of Desire - Rethinking Fetishism

Putting forward a new theory of fetishism - alternative fetishism - this book provides an up-to-date examination of the work of Jeanette Winterson, offering fresh perspectives and new insights on the topics of gender, sexuality, and identity in her writing. Combining contemporary theories in psychoanalytical and cultural studies, it proposes that a rethinking of fetishism allows Winterson''s works to be brought into sharper critical focus by repositioning fetishism as a daily practice in society. In so doing, it argues that Winterson''s work challenges orthodox, normative, and contemporary views of fetishism to reveal her own alternative version. Containing the transcript of an email Q&A with Winterson herself and covering the majority of Winterson''s oeuvre, from her first novel, (1985), up to the most recent, Frankissstein (2019), the book is divided into three main chapters that each discuss a particular theme in Winterson''s fiction: bodily fetishism, food fetishism, and sexual fetishism. While the book''s focus is on Winterson, the theoretical framework it proposes can be applied to other authors and disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, such as theatre and film, offering new ways of thinking about topics such as fetishism, feminism, psychoanalytical theory, postmodernism, gender, and sexuality.>

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Shareena Z Hamzah-Osbourne, Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne
• Mitarbeit: Bryan Cheyette (Herausgeber), Martin Paul Eve (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781350229006
• ISBN: 978-1-350-22900-6
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism