Patchwork Girl (hypertext)
- Patchwork Girl (hypertext)
"Patchwork Girl" is a work of electronic literature by American author Shelley Jackson. It was written in "StorySpace" and published by Eastgate Systems in 1995. It is often discussed along with Michael Joyce's "Afternoon, a story" as an important work of hypertext fiction.
Plot and structure
The narrative is based on two books, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Jackson's "Patchwork Girl" tells the story through illustrations of parts of a female body which are stitched together through text and image. The narrative of the story is divided into five segments, entitled "a Graveyard" "a Journal" "a Quilt" "a Story" and "& broken accents" each segment leads down a trail that takes the story in multiple directions through various linking words and images. In particular, Jackson uses graveyard imagery in order to invite the reader to resurrect Mary Shelley's monster.
ee also
*Electronic Literature Organization
External links
* [http://eastgate.com Eastgate]
*" [http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/PatchworkGirl.html Patchwork Girl] "
* [http://scholars.nus.edu.sg/cpace/ht/pg/pgov.html Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: An Overview]
* [http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol32/b_s_jackson.shtml Review]
*" [http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.100/10.2hayles.txt Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis] ", by N. Katherine Hayles
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