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Undoing Difference?: Race and Gender in Selected Works by Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson

Undoing Difference?: Race and Gender in Selected Works by Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson

Mihan, Anne

Hardcover

Series: American Studies - A Monograph, Book 224

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 3825360253
ISBN13: 9783825360252
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg
Published: Aug 23 2012
Pages: 403
Language: English
Literature offers unique opportunities to expose, question, and reimagine conventional notions of race and gender. On what textual clues do we as readers rely to determine whether a character is black or white, male or female? What happens to our conceptions of social interaction when these clues are ambiguous, as in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Paradise or in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body ? How can we envision non-hierarchical racial identities in a profoundly racist society? How can we escape the confines of a heteronormative gender system? Do words on a page open up possibilities that do not yet exist in lived reality? In Undoing Difference the author deftly analyses how Morrison and Winterson grapple with these and other questions in their literary texts and beyond. Her engaging and original study explores how both authors work creatively to undo oppressive differences of race and gender.

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