• Isha Malhotra

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The present paper examines Jeanette Winterson’s works in relation to postmodern theories of narrative and history and, critically analyses the indeterminate identity of the subjective narrator. It explores how Winterson in her oeuvre has self-consciously explored the ambiguous status of objective reality and has also questioned the suppositions about narratorial identity. Her use of deconstructive strategies to interrogate the assumptions about sex and gender and her deconstruction of binary oppositions like fiction/history, art/lies and male/female also form a purview of this study. A detailed postmodernist analysis of her novels Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body is made to exemplify postmodern aesthetics and the high degrees of self-reflexivity, pastiche and intertexuality in her works. In addition to it, the postmodern themes of constructed and performative nature of identity, gender and sexuality is also looked at in these works.

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