This article first dwells on ocular centrism before dealing with all the reversals and tiltings progressively coming up to the surface, as well as with genderless metonymic substitutes acting on behalf of the spirits. A liberating emancipation is finally completed. The spirits’ genderlessness can then deploy unencumbered. This twisting manoeuvre can be read as an attempt to outroot and erase previously assimilated societal constructs. It first mesmerises the spiritualists-to-be before catapulting them into a maelstrom of reversals and distortions. It all occurs via ocular centrism, embodied by a powerful Gaze, slithering throughout the plot. It is the authors second novel, following her debut Tipping the Velvet. Ladies in Peril: Sarah Waters on neo-Victorian narrative celebrations and why she stopped writing about the Victorian era January 2008 Authors: Abigail Dennis The University of Queensland. Affinity by Sarah Waters tells the story of sexless and genderless spirits (and of their human bodily forms, the spiritualists) slowly taking possession of one woman, Margaret Prior, who actually, unknowingly, shelters inner predispositions to spiritualism prior to the spirits’ intervention, giving thus credit to what her surname had proleptically heralded from the very start. Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters. Sarah Waters was born in 1966 in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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