Literature after Globalization
Subtitle: Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781441190710
Subjects: Nationalism in literature; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 21st century
Description: "Literature 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Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism."--Publisher's website.