Literature After Globalization

Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State

AvPhilip Leonard

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Literature after Globalization offers a detailed study of recent literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and national identity. Focusing on texts of the the 1990s and 2000s, particularly novels and other writing by Mark Danielewski, Hari Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts a departure from narratives of globalization which declare the collapse of national cultures, and it considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented and reasserted in the face of technology's transnational effects. Drawing upon recent theoretical responses to technology and culture (including work by Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472579799
Utmärkelser:Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015 (United States)

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Philip Leonard is Reader in Literary Studies and Critical Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Nationality between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave, 2005).

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Elegant, challenging and ambitious, Leonard's Literature after Globalization reads contemporary fiction in terms that ask broad questions about citizenship and national identity in the context of the messy fluidity and flux of our networked world. In the process, he generate a range of important insights into the nature of readership, identity and statehood at the start of the 21st century.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments \ 1 The ends of man: electronic frontiers in an age of global community \ 2 A space without geography, a nation without borders: The Cybergypsies and the literature of being-in-common \ 3 Teach phenomenology the bomb: Starship Troopers, the technologized body, and humanitarian warfare \ 4 'Secure, anonymous, unregulated': Cryptonomicon and the transnational data haven \ 5 'A revolution in code'? Transmission and the Cultural Politics of Hacking \ 6 'Without return. Without place': rewriting the book and the nation in Only Revolutions \ Bibliography