hero/heroine

If “Surrounded” had carried through its overdetermined premise more assuredly, she’d have made a compelling hero/heroine here.

Orlando is my all-time fictional hero/heroine.

The hallmark of sociological storytelling is if it can encourage us to put ourselves in the place of any character, not just the main hero/heroine, and imagine ourselves making similar choices.

In all these cases, as in Ms. Bhabha’s grouping, it is two figures confronting one another — the Self and the Other — not just the depiction of a hero, heroine, goddess or founding father.

But I also like Virginia Woolf’s hero/heroine Orlando, with whom I’ve always begun my undergraduate seminar in biography.