Flat-World Fiction - Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (Hardcover)

Flat-World Fiction analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about the United States 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 not only implicated in the developing digital world of flat screens but also threatened by it, while simultaneously 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. Liliana M. Naydan walks us through these complex relationships, revealing how authors show through their fiction that technology is political. In the process, these authors complement and expand on work by historians, philosophers, and social scientists, creating accessible, literary road maps to our digital future.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Liliana M. Naydan
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-6055-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
LSN:	0-8203-6055-4
Barcode:	9780820360553

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