![]() ![]() What does it mean? Having not read the novel, they are not (yet) aware that the driving force of the novel is loss, rather than love, and that loss writes itself in a very corporeal and concrete way on the body. Or was it a rhetorical question all along? What did she mean? Every time I mention the novel to my students, colleagues or friends, their first question is about the title. Throughout the fragmented narrative, we are faced with a recurring answer: that there will never be closure and never a satisfying response to Winterson’s question. The narrator’s fascination with love and loss is evident at the very beginning of the novel. ![]() ![]() For the sake of this commentary, I will briefly state that the novel’s plot revolves around the ambiguously gendered narrator’s love for Louise and the consequent loss that takes place. Winterson’s novel is beautiful in its affair with language, typical of Winterson. “Why is the measure of love loss?” asks Jeanette Winterson in her novel Written on the Body (1994). ![]() Through a Disability Studies lens, Dr Shahd Alshammari of Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait discusses Written on the Body, a 1994 novel by Jeanette Winterson, in terms of love and loss and the discovery of the failed and deformed body. ![]()
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