Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2024
The language of the ethnographer gets ‘stretched’ in an effort to wrap it around the world created by another language. Academic jargon can only disguise this linguistic disorder; hypertext can serve as a kind of therapy, an escape from assertive, monological statements about the other - ‘hard’ hypertextuality, that is. The author explores hypertextuality through the multiplicity of narrative programs that transect an electronic book with five co-authors, through which the reader can navigate as yet another co-author, or bricoleur. The topology of the cadavre exquis offers the image of a foreign culture with which we can establish multiple points of contact.