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Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:44

Paradoxa

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:55

Stitch Bitch: the Patchwork Girl

It has come to my attention that a young woman claiming to be the author of my being has been making appearances under the name of Shelley Jackson. It seems you have even invited her to speak tonight, under the misapprehension that she exists, that she is something besides a parasite, a sort of engorged and loathsome tick hanging off my side. May I say that I find this an extraordinary impertinence, and that if she would like to come forward, we shall soon see who is the author of whom.

Well? Well?

Very well.

I expect there are some of you who still think I am Shelley Jackson, author of a hypertext about an imaginary monster, the patchwork girl Mary Shelley made after her first-born ran amok. No, I am the monster herself, and it is Shelley Jackson who is imaginary, or so it would appear, since she always vanishes when I turn up. You can call me Shelley Shelley if you like, daughter of Mary Shelley, author of the following, entitled: Stitch Bitch: or, Shelley Jackson, that imposter, I'm going to get her.

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:58