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This chapter examines the journey of the self of the two novels’ protagonists. FTM transsexual Mary Martin in Sacred Country inhabits a ‘country in between’ genders materialized by the novel’s polyphony while first-person Lewis Little in The Way I Found Her is stuck in the transitional space between adolescence and adulthood, which his cosmopolitan journey through Paris emblematizes. The construction of their social self is at stake. The gender identity crisis is problematized geographically in Sacred Country while Lewis’ self in formation endeavours to translate his sense of fragmentation through the intertextual maze of world literature, thus redefining realism as postmodern realism.
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Walezak, E. (2017). Mindscapes as Landscapes: Journeys of the Self in Sacred Country and The Way I Found Her . In: Rose Tremain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57129-4_6
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