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Patchwork Girl, like Neuromancer
and eXistenZ, offers us one more pop-cultural representation and
interpretation of the intersections of technology and "the human."
However, because Patchwork Girl is a hypertext novel, and because
hypertext requires very different reading strategies than the print novel,
it may be a bit frustrating in the beginning. These reading strategies--hypertext
literacy--may at first seem counter-intuitive, unnatural, but remember that
there is nothing particularly "natural" about print literacy,
either: literacies are learned. We'll need to learn from the text itself
the best ways to approach it. A few tips:
Reading
Hypertexts
Reading Hypertexts
with Storyspace
Reading Patchwork Girl
Looking out for
Major Themes
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