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The
web-based hypermedia novella These
Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher (see
review
in dichtung-digital) won the first prize in the
fiction category awarded by the Electronic
Literature Organization in 2001. In this article
Ill take a closer look on some of the aspects
of this work, which is a confessional autobiography
about a girl coming to terms with her lesbian
identity. The article is structured around a set of
relations: the relation between the critic and the
work; textual and audio-visual representation;
personal and social relations; hypertextual
structure and autobiographical, unreliable
narration. These Waves is a class-room example of
the so-called associative hypertext. The
hypertextual structure is also closely linked to
the problematics of autobiographical narration.. As
readers we get to ponder about the nature of
remembering, of telling stories about ones
life. One of the genuine accomplishments of
Fishers work is to bring forth these
questions in a tangible, and still discreet,
way.
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