Hypertext and the Female Imaginary

Odin, Jaishree K.

ISBN 10: 0816666709 / ISBN 13: 9780816666706

Published by Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hypertext and the Female Imaginary
• Publisher: Univ. of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816666709
• ISBN 13: 9780816666706
• Binding: Softcover (Stiff Card)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women & Feminism

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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.

About the Author

Jaishree K. Odin is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.