Flat-World Fiction
Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America
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Pages: 230
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Pub Date: 12/15/2021
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6055-3
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Pub Date: 12/15/2021
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century
Flat-World Fiction
Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America
Depictions of digital technology and its sociopolitical underpinnings
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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.
—David Cowart, author of The Tribe of Pyn: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period
—S. M. Anderson, University of Michigan
—Alexander Starre, American Literary History
—Holly Eva Allen, South Atlantic Review