Patchwork Questions
Posted by admin on September 26, 2008, 4:57 pm
Here are some ideas for a post about Patchwork Girl:
1. What is the meaning and significance of monstrosity in Patchwork Girl?
2. What does Patchwork Girl have to say about identity?
3. Elsewhere, Shelley Jackson has written: “Hypertext . . . is what literature has edited out: the feminine. (That is not to say that only women can produce it. Women have no more natural gift for the feminine than men do.)” What position does Patchwork Girl take about writing and about hypertext as a technology of writing?
4. How would you position Patchwork Girl in relation to the other versions of Frankenstein that we have discussed? Which is it closest to, and why? Which is it furthest from? Can it help us see the novel in a new light?
