@article{ART003285798},
author={kimsoonbae},
title={Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2025},
pages={205-240},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2025...205}
TY - JOUR
AU - kimsoonbae
TI - Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 205
EP - 240
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This article reinterprets Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl; or, a Modern Monster through Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself to propose a shift in digital-subjectivity studies from ontological claims of fragmentation to an ethics of relation enacted by form. While posthumanist and cyberfeminist accounts have read Patchwork Girl as emblematic of distributed identity and multilinear interactivity, such frameworks often treat dispersion as a purely epistemological or technological property. Bringing Butler’s concepts of address, dependency, opacity, and responsibility into conversation with Jackson’s Storyspace architecture, the article argues that the hypertext stages a “scene of address” in which the self is produced through readerly decisions that suture lexias, expose seams, and acknowledge limits. The narrative’s five pathways (“a Graveyard,” “a Journal,” “a Quilt,” “a Story,” “& broken accents”) function as modes of relation—corporeal archive, citational montage, experiential bifurcation, dialogic intimacy, and linguistic seamwork —while the map overview provides a meta-mode that renders arrangement contingent and revisable. The article advances the notion of a procedural ethics of navigation: interactivity is not user sovereignty but a practice of acknowledgment in borrowed terms that never yield total knowledge.
KW - Patchwork Girl;hypertext;digital subjectivity;Judith Butler;ethics
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2025...205
ER -
kimsoonbae. (2025). Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl. Cross-Cultural Studies, 205-240.
kimsoonbae. 2025, "Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl", Cross-Cultural Studies, pp.205-240. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025...205
kimsoonbae "Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl" Cross-Cultural Studies pp.205-240 (2025) : 205.
kimsoonbae. Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl. 2025; 205-240. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025...205
kimsoonbae. "Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl" Cross-Cultural Studies (2025) : 205-240.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025...205
kimsoonbae. Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl. Cross-Cultural Studies, 205-240. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025...205
kimsoonbae. Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2025; 205-240. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025...205
kimsoonbae. Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl. 2025; 205-240. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025...205
kimsoonbae. "Stitching the Self: Judith Butler, Digital Identity, and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl" Cross-Cultural Studies (2025) : 205-240.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025...205
