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Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction considers the way in
which contemporary American authors address the subject of belief
in the post-9/11 Age of Terror. Naydan suggests that after 9/11,
fiction by Mohsin Hamid, Laila Halaby, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo,
John Updike, and Barbara Kingsolver dramatizes and works to resolve
impasses that exist between believers of different kinds at the
extremes. These impasses emerge out of the religious paradox that
shapes America as simultaneously theocratic and secular, and they
exist, for instance, between liberals and fundamentalists, between
liberals and certain evangelicals, between fundamentalists and
artists, and between fundamentalists of different varieties.
Ultimately, Naydan argues that these authors function as literary
theologians of sorts and forge a relevant space beyond or between
extremes. They fashion faith or lack thereof as hybridized and
hence as a negotiation among secularism, atheism, faith,
fundamentalism, and fanaticism. In so doing, they invite their
readers into contemplations of religious difference and new ways of
memorializing 9/11.
This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the
historical, political, and social significance of 9/11. This
collection considers 9/11 as an event situated within the much
larger historical context of late late-capitalism, a paradoxical
time in which American and capitalist hegemony exist as pervasive
and yet under precarious circumstances. Contributors to this
collection examine the ways in which 9/11 changed both everything
and, at the same time, nothing at all. They likewise examine the
implications of 9/11 through a variety of different media and art
forms including literature, film, television, and street art.
This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the
historical, political, and social significance of 9/11. This
collection considers 9/11 as an event situated within the much
larger historical context of late late-capitalism, a paradoxical
time in which American and capitalist hegemony exist as pervasive
and yet under precarious circumstances. Contributors to this
collection examine the ways in which 9/11 changed both everything
and, at the same time, nothing at all. They likewise examine the
implications of 9/11 through a variety of different media and art
forms including literature, film, television, and street art.
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.
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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