What does this say about the reality of the world?Ī reoccurring theme throughout the novel is the importance of the space between defined, known things. Matter, that thing most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. Like much of post-modern writing, Sexing the Cherry is critical of time and many other modernist absolutes. The nature of time is central to the novel. The book is set in two time periods, first in mid- 17th century, and second, in the near-future, 1990 (remember, the book was published in 1989). Like much pomo fiction, there are multiple narrators chief among these are Dog Woman, a woman of gigantic, but loosely-defined stature (like Paul Bunyan, who was "10 feet tall," and whose axe "carved the Grand Canyon"), and the boy she finds on the banks of a river, Jordan. Sexing the Cherry is a work of post-modern fiction by British author Jeanette Winterson first published in 1989.
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