Word: reinterpretive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first it seems as if Jong has deliberately created a boorish, self- deluded heroine, like the flawed narrator in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, whose unreliable confessions the reader learns to unravel and reinterpret. Nope. No such luck. Jong takes Leila Sand seriously. Worse yet, she expects the reader to do the same...