Patchwork Girl Bibliography

Intertextuality

Anthony, Susan B. Speech. 1873. Discusses her alleged crime of having voted and the "hateful oligarchy" of sex, wealth, and learning.

Baum, Frank L. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Ballantine, (f.p.) 1913. The story of Dr. Pipt, a Crooked Magician, who brings a Patchwork Girl called Scraps to life by the Powder of Life. His wife Margalotte, the Glass Cat, Ojo, and the crazy quilt are all referenced in Patchwork Girl.

Bolter, Jay David, Michael Joyce, John B. Smith, and Mark Bernstein. Getting Started with Storyspace. Eastgate Systems, 1990-1993. Introduction to Storyspace, a hypertext authoring environment that is a writing tool for managing complex document structures that do not conform to standard linear arrangements. Storyspace has an impressive record of innovative applications in fiction and creative writing; for example, Michael Joyce's landmark hypertext novel Afternoon was written in Storyspace.

Bompiani, Ginevra. "The Chimera Herself." Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part One. Ed. Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaf, and Nadia Tazi. Zone Books, 1989 (364). An article on the incestuous family tree of the chimera imbedded in a three volume collection of essays on the history of the human body, complete with photos.

Burton, Robert. Anatomy of Melancholy. 1621. A catalogue of the variants, manifestations, and causes of the disease of melancholy in addition to an overall discussion of the anatomy of the body and mind compiled (or plagiarized) from previous thinkers of the 17th century.

Bynum, Carolyn Walker. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. Zone Books, 1991. A series of seven essays on topics of gender, religion, sex, mortality, and medieval mysticism, including photographs.

Cixous, Helene. "Coming to Writing." "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays. Trans. Sarah Cornell, Deborah Jenson, Ann Liddle, and Susan Sellers. Harvard University Press, 1991. Feminist critic Cixous reveals that what is called writing demands the death of the self. She draws on Freud and Lacan to support her discussions of the female body and gender issues in relation to writing.

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. First published in 1902, Conrad's story describes intensely and in stark detail how greed can so easily drive civilized and enlightened men to revert to primitive savagery. The narrator, Marlow, recounts his quest in search of Kurtz that becomes a harrowing journey of self-discovery and haunting description of the brutality of colonial exploitation.

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. University of Minnesota Press, 1987. French philosophers Guattari and Deleuze purport a nomad philosophy of moving at infinite speeds in a mad creation of concepts. In each "plateau" there is an opposition, such as smooth/ Striated, rhizome/ tree, war machine/ State.

Derrida, Jacques. Disseminations. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: U Chicago, 1981. Derrida, French philosopher and post-modern deconstructuralist, discusses Plato.

Haraway, Donna J. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge, 1991. Haraway argues "for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries" (Haraway 150). She defines cyborgs as "chimeras" - hybrids of race, culture, gender and technology. Haraway's cyborgs are border-creatures, lying at the intersection of the organic and the inorganic. They exist as creatures of fiction, in our novels, movies and comics--and as creatures of reality.

Lucretius. De Rerum Natura. Trans. R.C. Latham as quoted in "The Chimera Herself" by Ginevra Bompiani. A famous six-book poem on nature. Focuses on the Philosophy of Epicurus.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minnesota: 1984. His basic statement is that technological transformations can be expected to have a considerable impact on knowledge and that its two principal functions--research and the transmission of acquired learning--are already feeling the effect. View more at http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/lyotard.htm

Schwartz, Hillel. "Torque: The New Kinesthetic of the Twentieth Century." Incorporations. Ed. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter. New York: Zone Books, 1992. Dance and social theoretician Hillel Schwartz presents a generalized and dark perspective of this century: "Current wisdom maintains that modern life, with its essential industrial momentum, has processed our world and our bodies into dissociated, fetishized, ultimately empty and machinable elements."

Shaw, Evelyn and Joan Darling. Female Strategies. Simon and Schuster, 1985. Two scientists look at courtship, mating, and nurturing in the animal world and compare to today's human concept of femininity.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. Penguin, 1985. Victor Frankenstein creates a hideous monster, his supernatural double. Frankenstein reads a copy of Milton's Paradise Lost, which profoundly stirs his emotions--the monster wants revenge--and someone to love him.

Showalter, Elaine. "Piecing and Writing." Poetics of Gender. Ed. Nancy K. Miller. Columbia University Press, 1986. Showalter delivered her paper “Piecing and Writing” at the Poetics and Gender Colloquium, held at Columbia in 1984, which asked how the tradition of “piecing, patchwork, and quilting” might be used to explore the last two centuries of American women's writing.

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine. MIT, 1991. Discusses monstrous bodies as the source of an alternative to the art history of the Enlightenment, questions postmodern aesthetics of the camera versus reality.

Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies Vol. I: Women Floods Bodies History. Trans. Stephen Conway, Erica Carter, Chris Turner. University of Minnesota, 1987. Examines the psychology of fascism and how the cyborg fantasy relates to the fascist fantasy quest for order and security against chaos, or femininity.

Other Works by Shelley Jackson

"13." Yellow Silk.

"Body Map." Clerestory. http://www.brown.edu/Students/Clerestory

"The Doll Story." Shelley and Pamela Jackson. http://www.ineradicablestain.com/dollgames/index.html. A defrocking of the little girl by returning to memories of playing with dolls.

"End of a Fox." Black Ice.

"Hagfish, Worm, Kakapo." Conjunctions 22. http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c22_sj.htm The life and sex of a hagfish who loves another.

"Musee Mecanique." Conjunctions. http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/jackson.htm. After long study, and with the help of a good fairy, Pinocchio succeeded at last in becoming a puppet, like his maker Geppetto.

"My Body: A Wunderkammer." 1997. Online. http://www.altx.com/thebody. Jackson uses her artwork to display and discuss her body from head to toe.

"Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl." 4 November 1997. http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/index_jackson.html

"The Putti." Conjunctions. http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c26-sj.htm Sketches "the contours of the double danger that concerns the putti as parasite, the putti as drug."

"?" Degenerative Prose.

"Tiny Novel." Gas 6.

Children's Books Illustrated by Shelley Jackson

Farmer, Nancy. Do You Know Me. Orchard/Puffin, 1994. Illustrator.

Jones, Rebecca C. Great Aunt Martha. Dutton, 1995. Illustrator.

DeFelice, Cynthia C. Willy's Silly Grandma. Orchard, 1997. Illustrator.

Jackson, Shelley. The Old Woman and the Wave. Orchard, 1998. A story of deliverance from Jackson, an old woman lives in a house at the foot of a perpetually standing wave. She has built a washtub boat in case the wave falls, scolds her dog, Bones, for playing in the water, and plants umbrellas on her roof in a vain attempt to ward off the wave's droplets. A stranger makes her see the possibilities the wave offers, and the old woman sails off for uncharted waters. Contains artful collage paintings and snippets of maps.