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Identification Practices in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
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Identification Practices in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
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The task of identifying the individual has given rise to a number
of technical innovations, including fingerprint analysis and DNA
profiling. A range of methods have also been created for storing
and classifying people's identities, such as identity cards and
digital records. Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century
Fiction tests the hypothesis that these techniques and methods, as
practiced in the UK and US in the long 20th century, are inherently
related to the literary representation of self-identity from the
same period. Until now, the question of 'who one is' in the sense
of formal identification has remained detached from the question of
'who one is' in terms of the representation of unique
individuality. Placing these two questions in dialogue allows for a
re-evaluation of the various ways in which uniqueness has been
constructed during the period, and for a re-assessment of the
historical and literary historical context of such construction. In
chapters ranging across the development of fingerprinting, the
institution of identity cards during the Second World War, DNA
profiling and contemporary digital surveillance, and an analysis of
writing by authors including Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene,
Elizabeth Bowen, J. G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, and Jennifer Egan,
Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century Fiction makes an
original contribution to the disciplines of English Literature,
History, and Cultural Studies.
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