The Ungendered Narrator in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body and in Encarna Castejón’s Escrito en el cuerpo

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the ungendered narrator in both Winterson’s Written on the Body and Encarna Castejón’s Spanish translation, focusing on the author’s choice and purpose as regards gender indeterminacy and its consequent effect upon the readers. I will also discuss the linguistic devices to represent the narrator in the text, whether or not gender is an inherent feature of words and how close Escrito en el cuerpo is to the original book, taking into consideration the grammatical differences between the source and target languages, i.e. English and Spanish, respectively...