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newoceanwaves 's review for:
Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
I love the way she uses language, especially in the Mary Shelley parts, but there was too much transphobic content in the contemporary sections and I’m very disappointed (especially the rape scene - it felt like the way lesbian characters always had to be punished in old novels, remixed with a trans character; why is this still happening in queer fiction today??)
I feel like there is room to explore the construction of identities and bodies, especially from queer and trans perspectives, but this book wasn’t it, and the way Ry’s identity seemed like it was supposed to parallel Frankenstein’s monster somehow felt honestly offensive.
I feel like there is room to explore the construction of identities and bodies, especially from queer and trans perspectives, but this book wasn’t it, and the way Ry’s identity seemed like it was supposed to parallel Frankenstein’s monster somehow felt honestly offensive.