Study On The Female Body Narrative In Jeanette Winterson’s Works

Jeanette Winterson as a British contemporary writer who has the most artistic fancies in the body about love and women, to describes the forms of the female body image. Body as the most prominent proposition in her literary creation, has always been derived profound literary background and study value. Based on feminist body theory, the author combines it with the view of narrative, and takes Winterson’s Orange is not the Only Fruit, Passion,Written On the Body as the main research object,discus the female through the body code, realize the turn of image, understand the essence of the gender, reshape the identity of the tag.This paper offers great insight into the unique female body narrative of the Jeanette Winterson’s novels from the following four parts:The Introduction mainy combs the condition of the creation and the research status at home and abroad of Jeanette Winterson, and clears the direction and structure of body research in the paper.Chapter one labels the analyses of the overall body image which presented in Winterson’s works and the local implicit body as the breakthrough point of the study,combined with the “negative women” theory of Irigaray,through the expression of the body surface, leads female image stand out.Chapter two focuses on the structure role of female body which has been elucidated by Winterson as a narrative impetus to promote the plot. From the view of feminist perspective, Beauvoir and Judith butler’s gender theory explore the body’s inner boundary which inspires women’s gender awareness become vigorous.Chapter three tries to expound women’s body and power space, the confrontation of space and symbiotic status in Winterson’s works, combined with Henry Lefebvre’s social spatial perspective,through the confrontation and fusion between the body and the external value system,product a new annotation of women’s identity.The paper thereby draw a conclusion: Jeanette Winterson’s deep research of the the body subject, restore the real female survival experience, In the stream of history,the group of women think through the following three dimensions:self-image,gender,identity. The construction of subject status is put on the agenda.