Postmodernist Poetics in Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry

Abstract

While postmodernism never had1 a specific manifesto, it is usually identified with the following themes: contradiction, randomness, excess (Lodge); self-reflexiveness, metafiction, eclecticism, redundancy, multiplicity (McHale); discontinuity, intertextuality, parody, dissolution of character, erasure of boundaries, the destabilization of the reader (D’haen); pluralist, antireason, skeptical, resistant, interrogative, transgressive, highly self-conscious, and intertextual (Butler)