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I explained how much I wanted to be with Melanie, that I could talk to her, that I needed that kind of friend. And . . . . And . . . . But I never managed to talk about and . . . . My mother had been very quiet, nodding her head from time to time, so that I thought she understood some of it. (Winterson, Oranges, ch.7) 

Chapter Two    Becoming in the Gendered Space

2.1 Home without father

The home in Sexing the Cherry is the fluid home of orphan, where the constant deterritorialization accompanies the orphan’s deterritorialized and nomadic life. The mother, Dog-Woman, is an orphan, and she picked up a child wrapped in a sack by chance from the river. The occasional encounter rather than the accurate blood relationship initially gives the home a fluidity that is a deterritorialization of the traditional blood family in the real world. Dog-woman becomes a mother, not by giving birth. Instead, the child, like Moses from the Bible, who floats down the river, is saved and raised by the female on the riverbank. Dog-Woman never expected to meet this orphan because she could not be loved by others due to her unbelievable weight. Therefore, she could not marry and have children like most people, and having this child becomes the thing she cherishes forever. 

From taking care of this orphaned child, she really feels she has a family because before, she was always alone and unacceptable on the edge of society with only her dogs for company, and it is only after taking care of this orphan that she feels comforted and accompanied. This occasional encounter creates a family of orphans that reflects the deterritorialization of the traditional blood family. From the beginning to the end of the novel, Jordan, the child sent by the river, does not try to find his birth parents or where he comes from but is always on his way to search for himself. The absence of his parents created a lack of identity, and the Dog-Woman’s care only disconnected him from the previous generation, leaving him to focus on the present, on himself, and to look outside to find himself. The non-blood family does not give Jordan an identity or, in another sense, a bond. As Eva König says, “within the cultural configurations of family (the primary site of orphan fictions), an orphan, without roots and family history, represents a radical break with the notion of family” (5). Jordan is a banished baby without biological parents, yet Dog-Woman is passively cut off by her birth parents. 

2.2 Gendered territory

The first part has shown that the fluid home of orphans deterritorializes ordinary families by descent, and this fluid home is created from the fundamental concern of another person. The following parts discuss the territory of hierarchical patriarchy, the royal garden, and the typical territories with female imprints, the brothel, the convent, and the household. 

2.2.1 Royal garden as the centre of hierarchical patriarchy

The Royal Garden is a space created and controlled by the British hierarchy of the time. This space is stratified, with each gardener moving from point to point, living according to rigid lines, and this garden has a fixed axis, the monarch. 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。