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Literature After Globalization: Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State de Dr Philip Leonard

Literature After Globalization: Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State

Autor Dr Philip Leonard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iul 2014
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Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472579799
ISBN-10: 1472579798
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Includes readings of Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Stephenson'ss Cryptonomicon and Kunzru's Transmission.

Notă biografică

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).

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

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.
Literature After Globalization is no doubt a thought-provoking study.
LeoNard (Nottingham Trent Univ., UK) offers six chapters on five novels of globalization. He writes on Anglo-Indian Indra Sinha's The Cyber Gypsies (1999), a barely fictional memoir of the emergence of early multi-participant online communities. He explores Cryptonomicon (1999), one of the best works of the talented Neal Stephenson, in which the encryption of vast amounts of data is an active theme. Leonard offers perspicacious readings of the Anglo-Indian Hari Kunzru's compelling Transmission (2004), which has a hacker as its protagonist, and of Mark Danielewski's Only Revolutions (2006), arguably not a novel but rather a multi-stranded 360-page meditation on open-ended constuctions of self from fragments of existing culture. A suggestive reading of the film Starship Troopers (1997), based on Robert Heinlein's 1959 book of the same title, is also offered. Leonard's cumulative representation of interfaces between contemporary literature and the digital domain is even more valuable than these fine readings, as are his rapid yet learned and subtle comments on the work of major theorists. This is a rare achievement in the field of literature and globalization, a definite advance on even such competent works as James Annesley's Fictions of Globalization (2006) and Suman Gupta's Globalization and Literature (CH, Oct'09, 47-0689). Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.