Visions and Dreams

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

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Visions and Dreams est un hypertexte de fiction centré sur quatre thèmes : «injustice», «spirituality», «genetics» et «motherhood». Ces quatre mots représentent les axes centraux du texte, et constituent les quatre départs possibles de la lecture de l'oeuvre.

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Hosting website:

helenwhitehead

Hosting website URL:

http://www.helenwhitehead.com

Date of last consultation:

May 01, 2007

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
ga42@dial.pipex.com
Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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«My mother sometimes tells me a story, a story from our family history, from the bad old days of the pre-war years. It's a story about keeping a baby alive — for the maternity money. Joanna doesn't have the patience to listen to the same story over and over again, but I love to hear it. There's a comfort in repetition, the comfort of a well-known nursery rhyme or fairy tale. But in passing on the family stories, there is also something to marvel at, something to think on, something to admire. It's usually one of those quiet times, after a big Sunday dinner with all the family, while the dishwasher chugs in the kitchen and the women's jobs are done for an hour or two. My mother and I sit with our elbows on the cleared family dining table, which is still extended to seat all the visitors. The cream Irish linen tablecloth is marked by a wine spill, washed out, with a saucer underneath to raise it to dry. There might be a discarded napkin, a pyramid of spilled salt, smears of Yorkshire pudding and crumbs of the stuffing my mother makes from my grandmother's recipe — a meal in itself incorporating not just breadcrumbs and herbs but onion, mushrooms and a whole pound of sausagemeat.»

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Introduction The self is composed of fragments seen and unseen conscious and unconscious now and then under the spotlight and lost in the dark the self is composed of different roles multiple persons recurrent obsessions changes of mind history and experience nature and nurture to illuminate the self seek in hiding places look in nooks and crannies of the mind study intentions and behaviour motivations and desires nature and nurture: Genetics and Motherhood motivations and desires: Injustice and Spirituality

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Visions and Dreams

Whitehead, Helen