Title: Writing multiplicity: Hypertext and feminist textual politics
Abstract: This article explores how hypertext might be used in the composition classroom to explore the gendered nature of text production. By exploring the theoretical connection between hypertext and feminist theory, this article suggests that writing multivocal hypertexts can help make students more aware of the multiplicity of their subject positions and the ways in which academic contexts try to silence those positions. Through a critical reading of a feminist, multivocal hypertext written by one of the authors, this article highlights both the successes and limitations of this theoretical premise. Although the article points to the ways both the academic context in which such hypertexts are situated and the nature of hypertextuality itself ultimately interfere with the writer's attempt to enact all aspects of a feminist intervention into textual politics, it concludes by recommending such a practice for the classroom. Despite its limitations, the process of creating such a text enacts many goals of a feminist classroom: finding a place for marginalized voices and interrogating the gendered power relations of academic discourse.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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