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Title: Gender reversal explored in fiction
Post by: Shana A on June 26, 2010, 08:59:02 AM
Post by: Shana A on June 26, 2010, 08:59:02 AM
Gender reversal explored in fiction
Reviewed by: Debbie Patterson
26/06/2010 1:00 AM
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/gender-reversal-explored-in-fiction-97216894.html (http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/gender-reversal-explored-in-fiction-97216894.html)
LIKE Yann Martel's Self or Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Kathleen Winter's debut novel explores the notion of gender reversal. But unlike these two esteemed writers, Winter accomplishes her task without ever resorting to magic.
In this remarkably lucid and forthright story, we follow the fortunes of Wayne, an endearingly earnest hermaphrodite, born in a remote fishing community in Labrador in the late '60s.
Wayne's father, Treadway, is a half-Innu trapper, a gentle taciturn stoic who loves dogs, hard work and the wild outdoors. Wayne's mother Jacinta is "from away" -- a schoolteacher from St. John's who came for work and stayed for love.
Reviewed by: Debbie Patterson
26/06/2010 1:00 AM
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/gender-reversal-explored-in-fiction-97216894.html (http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/gender-reversal-explored-in-fiction-97216894.html)
LIKE Yann Martel's Self or Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Kathleen Winter's debut novel explores the notion of gender reversal. But unlike these two esteemed writers, Winter accomplishes her task without ever resorting to magic.
In this remarkably lucid and forthright story, we follow the fortunes of Wayne, an endearingly earnest hermaphrodite, born in a remote fishing community in Labrador in the late '60s.
Wayne's father, Treadway, is a half-Innu trapper, a gentle taciturn stoic who loves dogs, hard work and the wild outdoors. Wayne's mother Jacinta is "from away" -- a schoolteacher from St. John's who came for work and stayed for love.