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work_rec24n4ilrbfvlp5iirozr6skq	Eileen Pollard	"Trust me, I'm telling you my life story": Queer Return in the memoirs of Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Kay	2012	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3986	306	66	Title "Trust me, I'm telling you my life story": Queer Return in the memoirs of memoirs of Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Kay This essay will consider the notion of 'queer return' through examining the experience of adoption in Jeanette Winterson's Why be happy when you could be normal (2011) and Jackie Kay's Red Dust I refer, in particular, to the memoirs of Jackie Kay, Red Dust offer a decentred reading of the queer narratives of these memoirs (Derrida, "Ellipsis" 371-378). For example, Winterson's memoir states explicitly that 1985, the year Oranges came out, "wasn't the think that truth, origin and narrative in recent memoirs, especially those repeating earlier fictions, tone) of Kay's earlier work surface again in Red Dust Road. Road, concerning the past of Kay's adoptive parents, works to clarify this sensation of instability: account and chronology, Winterson's memoir is much more linear than Red Dust Road.	./cache/work_rec24n4ilrbfvlp5iirozr6skq.pdf	./txt/work_rec24n4ilrbfvlp5iirozr6skq.txt