A r b o r E r e c t a
Introduction
The hypertext I am going to analyze form
the spatial point of view is “Arbor Erecta” by the American author Sonya Rapoport.
It tells the story of the transsexual change
of James from female to male, through a botanical concept applied to sexuality
and tribal initiation rites in
It is
important to mention how the text is organized. The very first page is the
title page of the work, which shows the name of the author, a photography that
illustrates the page, a short reference to its content, a quotation by Gilbert Herdt, and two links, “credits” and “table of context”. This
second link is the one which takes us to the ten different chapters of the
work, meaning the ten stages that the protagonist has gone through in order to
reach his full transformation, each of them represented by a clickable
photography of a plant.
I am going
to give two links that would lead you to some information about the author of
the text, Sonya Rapoport and the two protagonists of the story, James
Green, who has collaborated with the
author contributing pictures and some sentences. And the Pandanus
tree, because the whole transformation of
James Green from into a male is connected with this tree. This information is
essential for a complete understanding of the text and to have a wider vision
about this unusual story.
[Second Paper] [Introduction]
[Sonya Rapoport] [James Green] [Spatial References] [Pandanus tree] [Conclusion] [Bibliography]
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