Patchwork girl—fractured maternal monsters

Title: Patchwork girl—fractured maternal monsters
Creator: Goriss-Hunter, Anitra
Date: 2021
Type: Text; Book chapter
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/188908
Identifier: vital:17340
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1vbd22k.5
Identifier: ISBN:9781772583335
Abstract: Maternity and the monstrous are closely intertwined in cultural, social, scientific, and technological narratives. Monstrous maternal entities are firmly entrenched in the popular imaginary and loom large in countless works of fiction and nonfiction. To problematize the notion of the monstrous maternal as tied to a concept or body, this chapter interrogates how monstrously maternal bodies are constructed as hybridity, fragmented identity, and queer desire in Shelley Jackson’s hypertext fiction, Patchwork Girl (1995)—a cyberfeminist reworking of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I argue that Patchwork Girl enacts explorations of the monstrous maternal—historically, the site of the Other, embodiment, agency, and
Publisher: Demeter Press
Relation: Monstrous Mothers p. 23-38
Rights: All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
Rights: Copyright Demeter Press
Subject: Motherhood in popular culture; Women in popular culture
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