I’m really fascinated by Sullivan’s discussion of hypertext as a space of feminist praxis, and this discussion also has me thinking a lot about the manner in which hypertext might also challenge the way we think about narrative due to the fact that “hypertext is not a nonlinear form but a multilinear one” (33). And the manner in which this multilinear form converses with a feminist engagement with literature further troubles the boundaries of these conventions: “Feminists and other postmodernists have pointed out that traditional literary conventions privilege the unified text…However, fragmented narratives are being produced by feminists who want to counter the idea that texts are unified and self-containing” (35).

As such, I wonder how the open-endedness, the fragmentation, the multivocality, and the multilinearity of hypertext might allow students to engage with other modes of writing and communication. And I also wonder what other narrative forms we might also consider that might also make use of multilinear processes. I wonder how this all might speak to the types of narratives and writing processes that may be privileged, and I also wonder how expanding our understanding of narrative might allow us to see narrative structures in other spheres or spaces.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about what Hocks mentions regarding embodiment in digital spaces and theorists’ ambivalence regarding how we think about the body in such spaces: “This ambivalence about both escaping and reifying our real bodies and identities in relation to virtual environments, I believe, marks a fundamental characteristic of electronic environments and becomes the site where feminist interventions make a difference” (108). I wonder, here, though—can the body ever really be erased? Can we really escape the body in virtual spaces? Do we want to?