My Body- a Wunderkammer by Shelley Jackson was a difficult hypertext to wrap my head around, but not in the typical sense of the other hypertexts we’ve studied. Instead of spending majority of our time to simply understand what is going on, we are able to read and understand the context. This work was more relatable and personable than any of the other works, so the difficult part laid within discovering the reason behind the work and possibly the feelings she had while writing the work. While we took time to navigate and explore the work, I felt as though I was prying into someone’s life and private journal or diary. There were some very personal entries about her body. For instance, the entry about her stomach and how her belly button ring chain kept her from slouching was, to an extent, uncomfortable for me. She says, “[the chain] make[s] me aware of my bondage… it stops me from wondering where else I might want to be…” Several parts of the entries are critical of her body and make me wonder if she didn’t feel resentful towards her surrounding society, rather than sentimental and self-confident, like was said in class. This is evident in the same entry when she talks about her belly dancing and her inability to achieve the dance technique. It seems that she has something positive to say, but then the next line is consequently negative. For instance, she says, “Belly dancing has taught me to roll and flutter [my stomach], though awkwardly and unreliably.” Another example is when she had the cast that made her small injury seem bigger than it was. This caused people \u2018who wouldn’t ordinarily talk to [her]’ to inquire about what happened. She felt as though her injury wasn’t good enough for people to seem concerned. While there are several instances of her being expressing self-confidence, I can’t help but feel a sense of shame and resentfulness towards her schoolmates and family or even in her self proclaimed shortcomings.<\/p>\n
My Body- a Wunderkammer gave insight to a unique individual’s past and revealed different aspects of her body image. Within each entry there are links interweaving the entries together. I’m not sure why she makes the connections she does, other than the link making a connection to the obvious body part, but there are some that take more anaylsis to figure out. For instance, with her link of \u2018princess’ the reader wouldn’t necessarily guess that the link would lead to an entry about her dolls and their hair.<\/p>\n
Shelley Jackson’s work is extremely intimate and secluded from the outside world, from sharing about the hairs on her toes to her exclaiming that she discovered a new way to masturbate. This work is very intriguing on several levels than the other works than we’ve studied because it added a sense that the reader could relate to as well as feel empathy towards in some respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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