Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
realists can destabilize ideologies that have become normalized, and reveal the power of language
to construct identity and shape our perception of the world.
Cyberspace and 21st-century fiction. The.Powerbook is 21st Century fiction that uses past,
present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called
Ali, or Alix (because x marks the spot), will pin up a story for you, cut it to fit. She is a language
costumier, writing to order, letting you be the hero of your own life, offering you freedom just for one
night.
The price? Risk. You risk entering the story as yourself and leaving it as someone else. But if the
narrative changes, then so does the narrator, as Ali discovers this is a price she too will have to
pay.
In The PowerBook Winterson weaves the narrative of an online storyteller named Ali and her/his