Review - Sexing The Cherry
Read this for contemporary women's writing. I really don't know how to feel about it. I have flicked through Jeanette Winterson books before and found myself repelled by the postmodernism -- I just can't get into books that are like that. But since I had to read this one, I did, and it wasn't a huge chore. There were some gorgeous images, some lovely writing, and yet I wasn't sold. I liked the stories of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, but... I loved the part with the city and the word clouds hanging above it, and yet...
I guess when I read, I want something more solid. Something that hangs together a little more concretely than this does. I liked it in some ways, with its dreaminess and exploration and defiance of boundaries, its whimsicalness, but I just couldn't love it as a whole.
Maybe studying it in class will help.
I guess when I read, I want something more solid. Something that hangs together a little more concretely than this does. I liked it in some ways, with its dreaminess and exploration and defiance of boundaries, its whimsicalness, but I just couldn't love it as a whole.
Maybe studying it in class will help.