Hypertext and the Female Imaginary - Electronic Mediations (Hardback)

Jaishree K. Odin (author)

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Hardback 176 Pages / Published: 01/09/2010

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Synopsis

In Hypertext and the Female Imaginary, Jaishree K. Odin reveals how media that use hypertextual strategies of narrative fragmentation provocatively engage questions of gender or cultural difference. Odin addresses hypertext on two levels: as an artistic technique in electronic or film narratives and as a metaphor for describing the complexity of postmodernism in which different cultures, discourses, and media are in continual interaction with one another.Investigating the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, Judy Malloy, Shelley Jackson, Stephanie Strickland, and M. D. Coverly, Odin demonstrates how these writers apply hypertextual strategies to subversively convey difference. Through her readings of various transformative hypertext narratives by women writers/artists, she pursues the question of what constitutes empowering descriptions of the world in a technology-mediated culture where the dominant discourse is turning everything into the same.Using feminist as well as postcolonial perspectives, she explores the embodied state of the human as reflected in critically aware contemporary narratives and examines how these works consider what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816666690
Number of pages: 176
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"Hypertext and the Female Imaginary is a much-needed examination of cultural studies issues as they relate to literary-oriented digital media and are played out in women's works dealing with hypertext. Jaishree K. Odin has written an extremely valuable book." -Dene Grigar, Washington State University, Vancouver