Alienation is a familiar theme in the contemporary global
environment where identities have become fragmented, where cultures
have been irrevocably changed by mass migrations and the impact of
globalization, and where the media seems to have saturated the
global human consciousness, but how does it manifest in
contemporary fiction? Burgert A. Senekal discusses recent
postmodern and systems theory reinterpretations of Melvin Seeman's
landmark sociological study of alienation, and illustrates some of
the ways in which powerlessness, meaningless, normlessness, and
social isolation manifest in the characters and plots of works by
Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh and Pat Barker. Although
aimed at an academic readership, Senekal's accessible style ensures
that the casual reader will also find the book a fresh approach to
literary studies and the contemporary Western world.
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