The present research seeks to critically address Lisa Unger’s In the Blood (2014) and Crazy Love You (2015) getting use of Jacques Derrida's deconstructivist concepts of otherness and logocentrism. The two novels by Unger are narrated and constructed on the basis of masculine/feminine binary opposition in order to empower women; however, it is argued that they have not succeeded in doing so. Hence, the two novels can be studied through the lens of Derrida’s concepts. Otherness, one of the key terms of this thesis, highlights the way masculine/feminine binary opposition is constructed in the two novels. The text is deconstructed to argue that neither side of the binarism is prior. Moreover, logocentrism is used to find out whether Dear Diary chapters of In the Blood and Fatboy and Priss chapters in Crazy Love You as written parts added to the course of the story are authentic. Based on logocentrism, speech is prior to writing which means writing is not authentic to take into account. This argument is deconstructed to disapprove the concept of logocentrism.
