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Cyberfiction: |
Beryl Fletcher |
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Biography |
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Introduction I am a feminist novelist writing about the lives of contemporary women. Until recently, cyberfiction has been the exclusive preserve of science fiction writers (usually male) but cyberspace is fast becoming an everyday reality in the lives of many women. To me, cyberspace is an exciting Real Place where women live and work and play, a place that is ripe for representation within realist feminist fiction. This is the story of how I came to write my novel The Silicon Tongue (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1996) and how I fell in love with the Internet. I explore the themes that came to fascinate me during the writing of The Silicon Tongue: the transformation of womenıs stories and memories from private speech to public (cyber)space: the political and technological manipulation of womenıs fertility: the possibility of a reconciliation between body and mind in cyberspace. |
Beryl Fletcher was born in New Zealand. In 1992, her novel The Word Burners was awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for the best first book in South Asia and the South Pacific. She has since published three novels, The Iron Mouth, The Silicon Tongue and The Bloodwood Clan. In 1994, she was chosen to represent New Zealand at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. In 1999, she was appointed as Writer in Residence at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Now sixty, Beryl believes that women who matured Before Feminism have important stories to tell. |
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