3。2 Representative phenomenons of narrative movements in the novel 13

3。3   Narrative duration: Retrospection toward common sense 14

4  Frequency: Thematic chorus of different voices 16

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4。2 Frequency of the thematic narration in the novel 17

4。3 Narrative frequency: Thematic chorus of different voices 18

Conclusion 19

Acknowledgments 20

References 21

1 Introduction

1。 1 Jeanette Winterson: From a Christian child to a post-modern writer

Jeanette Winterson, born on August 27th, 1959 in Manchester, is known as a contemporary British postmodern novelist, who has won the Lambda Literary Awards for twice。 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, one of her most famous works, is seen as the semi-autobiography of her life。 Similar to the protagonist in the novel of Orange Are Not the Only Fruit, Winterson was also adopted in 1960 by a pious couple who belonged to the Elim Pentecostal Church。 Though Winterson started evangelizing and wrote sermons when she was very young, she finally identified herself as a homosexual and left the Elim Pentecostal community, starting her own journey to become herself。 During her adulthood, Winterson did a plenty of different jobs to make a living and to support her study in Accrington and Rossendale College。 At that time, she even worked in a psychological recovery house。 

In the year of 1985, Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit won the Whitbread Prize。 In the year of 1990 she finished the television version of the novel which was awarded by BAFTA for Best Drama in the same year。 After her first novel, Jeanette Winterson continued her writing。 Her works are mainly focused on the issues of feminism, gender identification, ecological problems, history, religions, homosexual and other social concerns, such as Passion, The Power Book, Written on the Body, Light House Keeping, and Sexing the Cherry。

1。 2 Sexing the Cherry: A feminist novel with postmodern features

Sexing the Cherry is a postmodern novel written by Jeanette Winterson in 1990。 The novel contains two historical periods of England。 It is organized by two story lines。 The first line, from 1630s to 1670s in London, presents exotic journeys of a Rabelaisian woman, known as the Dog Woman, and her protégé, Jordan ( Farwell, 1996 ) 。 The story of Dog Woman and Jordan contains the historical period from the Civil War in Britain, the Trial Day of the King Charles and the Plague in London。 Besides British history, the part of Dog Woman and Jordan also presents the mysterious tales such as the twelve dancing princesses and the city without gravity。 The story of Jordan and the Dog Woman takes the most part of the novel。 It starts with a journey they shared and it ends up with the fire in London set by the Dog Woman。 The other line of the novel is started from 20th century in London, presented by Nicolas Jordan and a female chemist。 This line is much less connected to British history。 Nicolas Jordan, who shared the same name with the Jordan of the first part of the novel, is a teenager boy, while the female chemist is a young scientist who is mad about the society and the ecological issues unsettled。 The story of them starts from the three reasons leading Nicolas Jordan to make the decision of joining in the navy, and it is ended up with the meeting of Nicolas Jordan and the female chemist and the declaration of burning down a chemical factory ( Winterson, 1991 ) 。