 Cover design by Liz Nicholson, design BITE © Illustration by Christina Mowle © All rights reserved: Spinifex Press |
A novel with interactive hypertext links by Suniti Namjoshi
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Cover design by Liz Nicholson, design BITE © Illustration by Christina Mowle © All rights reserved: Spinifex Press |
A novel with interactive hypertext links by Suniti Namjoshi
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‘Suniti Namjoshi is an inspired fabulist.’ —Marina Warner
Every retelling of a myth is a reworking of it. Every hearing or reading of a myth is a recreation of it. It is only when we engage with a myth that it resonates, becomes charged and recharged with meaning. And so it is in Building Babel, a book that re-engages with myth through the cyberworld, where worlds intersect and are transformed.
Exploratory and experimental, Suniti Namjoshi’s work is studied around the world for its transformative creations. A unique book in which the author invites the reader to explore ideas on culture and contribute to the Babel Building Site on the Spinifex website: www.spinifexpress.com.au
‘She says the memories in people’s brains, or “memes” fight to preserve themselves in culture.’ —Jenny Sinclair, Computer Age
‘[Suniti Namjoshi] has produced an interactive novel, inviting readers to determine the outcome of the fable via the net. Try it out.’ —Sylvia Martin, LOTL
‘Building Babel explores how you might go about developing a new culture out of the shards of another. This is a new innovation in fiction linking the novel with the Net, combining cutting edge technology with cutting edge literature, highlighting the interactive relationship between writer, reader and publisher and giving the reader an outlet to contribute to this traditionally one-sided relationship.’ —Nigel Horrocks, New Zealand Herald
‘Building Babel [is] an important development in Namjoshi’s writing and an interesting experiment for fiction in general.’ —Jenny Pausacker, The Age
‘Building Babel has stories within stories. It can be likened to a game of chess; the moves the reader will make depend on the degree of sophistication they wish to lend to the reading.’ —Heather Nix, The Republican
‘... Namjoshi creates some wonderful moments in the course of her book.’ —John Burnside, Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies
The Reader's Text
of
Building Babel
to contribute their speculations about possible worlds that sisters might invent.
Suniti Namjoshi has three other books published by Spinifex Press, Goja, Feminist Fables and St Suniti and the Dragon, and two articles, A Meme of Great Power and Other Locations in CyberFeminism.
Visit Suniti's Home Page to find out more about her.
Also...
Read the abstracts from thePolitics of Cyberfeminism Conference at which Suniti Namjoshi and other Spinifex authors Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Dale Spender, Rye Senjen, Jane Guthrey, Beryl Fletcher and Suniti Namjoshi were speakers at, on Saturday 21 September 1996 at Deakin University.
178pp 198x128mm pb
Territories:World
All rights: Spinifex 
