Patchwork Girl (hypertext)
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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.
[edit] Plot and structure
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The narrative is based on two books, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Patchwork Girl 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 path of the story goes in multiple directions through a variety of links. In particular, Jackson uses graveyard imagery in order to invite the reader to resurrect Mary Shelley's monster.
