Jeanette Winterson’s Narratives of Desire: Rethinking Fetishism

Author:   Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne (University of Swansea, UK) ,  Bryan Cheyette ,  Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck College University of London UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350229006


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 April 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Jeanette Winterson’s Narratives of Desire: Rethinking Fetishism


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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, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (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.

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Author:   Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne (University of Swansea, UK) ,  Bryan Cheyette ,  Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck College University of London UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781350229006


ISBN 10:   1350229008
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 April 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne is an Honorary Research Associate in the College of Arts & Humanities at Swansea University, UK, and has been a Research Fellow in the Florence Mockeridge Fellowship group. Prior to her academic career, she worked in media and advertising in Malaysia, and she has since taught at universities in Malaysia, Iran, and the UK.

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