The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic
illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of
disinformation poses in the age of social media and
twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the
frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel
antidemocratic white nationalist movements in the United States and
abroad, What Would Cervantes Do? is a lucid meditation on the key
role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all
forms of disinformation. David Castillo and William Egginton travel
back to the early modern period, the first age of inflationary
media, in search of historically tested strategies to overcome
disinformation and shed light on our post-truth market. Through a
series of critical conversations between cultural icons of the
twenty-first century and those of the Spanish Golden Age, What
Would Cervantes Do? provides a tour-de-force commentary on current
politics and popular culture. Offering a diverse range of
Cervantist comparative readings of contemporary cultural texts
–movies, television shows, and infotainment – alongside ideas
and issues from literary and cultural texts of early modern Spain,
Castillo and Egginton present a new way of unpacking the logic of
contemporary media. What Would Cervantes Do? is an urgent and
timely self-help manual for literary scholars and humanists of all
stripes, and a powerful toolkit for reality literacy.
General
| Imprint: |
McGill-Queen's University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
Canada |
| Series: |
McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series |
| Release date: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
David Castillo
• William Egginton
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-228-00815-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-228-00815-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780228008156 |
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