Following the Stephanides family from the saga of the grandparents, through to the illicit love of the parents, and on to Calliope where the linage ceases, Middlesex claims to be a novel about identify, sexual discrimination, and a narrator who is both male and female. The sins of the past, however, follow them in the form of a mutated gene that Calliope, our hermaphroditic narrator, feels defines her future, specifically in the year 1974 where a failure to develop as a girl and a crush on a school mate leave her to believe that she isn’t like other girls at all.
Defining the Un-Definable: A Hermaphrodite Examines Gender IdentityĪ generational epic, Middlesex is a novel about forbidden love, history, and gender identity set against a panoramic Greek background where the tragic invasion of Smyrna enables Calliope Stephanides’ grandparents to leave Greece for America and start a new life.
0 kommentar(er)
