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.
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