Flat-world fiction : digital humanity in early twenty-first-century America / Liliana M. Naydan.
| Author/creator |
Naydan, Liliana M. author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021] |
| Description | x, 217 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction: American Literature and Digital Technology in the New Millennium -- Relationships with Technology in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story and Kristen Roupenian's "Cat Person" -- Searching History in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad -- The Digital Divine in Joshua Ferris's To Rise Again at a Decent Hour and Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am -- Cybercapitalism in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis and Dave Eggers's The Circle -- National Divides and Digitization in Zadie Smith's "Meet the President!" and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West -- Conclusion: Flat-World Fiction and the Textured Future. |
| Abstract | "This book analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about America in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In this period, authors such as Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Joshua Ferris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mohsin Hamid, Thomas Pynchon, Kristen Roupenian, Gary Shteyngart, and Zadie Smith found themselves implicated in the developing digital world of flat screens, threatened by it, and also attempting to critique it. As a result, their texts explore how human relationships with digital devices and media transform human identity and human relationships with one another, history, divinity, capitalism, and nationality. These authors show through their fiction that technology is political. In the process, they complement and expand on work by historians, philosophers, and social scientists. They create accessible, literary roadmaps to our digital future"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780820360577 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| LCCN | 2021021553 |
| ISBN | 9780820360553 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0820360554 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780820360560 paperback |
| ISBN | 0820360562 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS374 .T434 N39 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |