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History as a discourse in Jeanette Winterson's "The passion": the politics of alterity

    1. [1] Universidad de La Rioja

      Universidad de La Rioja

      Logroño, España

  • Localización: Journal of English Studies, ISSN 1576-6357, Nº 2, 2000 (Ejemplar dedicado a: New Voices in Literature), págs. 7-18
  • Idioma: español
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    • Set in the historical context of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, Jeanette Winterson's The Passion is an outstanding example of the kind of fiction that Elizabeth Wesseling (1991: vii) calls postmodernist historical novels, that is, "novelistic adaptations of historical material". Besides, being profoundly self-reflexive, the novel also falls under Linda Hutcheon's (1988) category of historiographic metafiction. The present paper focuses on Winterson's political choice of two representatives of historically silenced groups, a soldier and a woman, who use two apparently opposed narrative modes, the historical and the fantastic, to tell a story that both exposes history as a discursive construct and provides an alternative fantastic discourse for the representation of feminine desire.


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