Ask for Sanctuary

Submitted by NT2 on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:14

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"Ask for Sanctuary" est un hypertexte de fiction qui contient des passages poétiques. Un texte de base se divise en plusieurs sections mises en hyperliens sur lesquelles on peut cliquer pour accéder aux diverses parties de l'hypertexte total.

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Well

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http://www.well.com

Date of last consultation:

October 19, 2006

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
jmalloy@mail.well.com
Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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I ask for sanctuary. Sanctuary in the mountains with the rivers and the lakes beside the woods and the green meadows. For everyone who suffers from oppression, Sanctuary. For ourselves, our communities, our families, our children, our friends and neighbors, the animals who share their lives with us, for all of us who are clandestinely enslaved, I ask for sanctuary. I ask for sanctuary from those who -- rather than informing and openly consulting with the American people -- secretly plot byzantine solutions to real terrors. From incomprehensible, unendurable psychological torture, I ask for sanctuary. Sanctuary from those who suppress our voices, from those, who believing their own voices more important, have diverted our voices as the waters of the mountains are stolen by the cities. From those who believe that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are of no consequence, I ask for sanctuary.

Notes

This 2007 version of Ask for Sanctuary features
a new web design, opening audio, and selected lexias from
the original version.

Conceived as a series of electronic broadsides,
Ask for Sanctuary was begun in 2002 at the time
of Martin Luther King Day. The last lexia was posted on
Martin Luther King Day 2004. The work has been edited somewhat,
but written at a time when the author sought to metaphorically
reveal the potential for a covert persecution, these poet's
responses now stand as they are; each lexia reflecting the time
of its writing; each lexia returning to the words of the spiritual
that begins: "I ask for sanctuary."

The opening spiritual "I ask for Sanctuary" and the final lexias --
"and as they spoke the terror receded" -- differ from the rest
of the work in that, rather than metaphoric nightmares, they are
imagined dreams of hope. »

Biography

Malloy, Judy

Née sous le nom de Judith Ann Powers à Boston, Malloy a été élevée dans le Massachusetts. Judy Malloy est une poète dont les oeuvres s'inscrivent à la rencontre de l'hypernarrativité, du réalisme magique et l'art numérique. Elle a été une des premières collaboratrices de The Well et Arts Wire, des fictions interactives et collaboratives. Malloy a été rédactrice en chef de projets papier et en ligne. Ses œuvres littéraires ont été exposées dans le monde entier.

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