TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naydan,Liliana M.
TI  - Flat-world fiction: digital humanity in early twenty-first-century America 
SN  - 9780820360577
AV  - PS374 .F538 2021
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Technology in literature
KW  - Literature and technology
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "This book analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about America 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 implicated in the developing digital world of flat screens, threatened by it, and also 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. These authors show through their fiction that technology is political. In the process, they complement and expand on work by historians, philosophers, and social scientists. They create accessible, literary roadmaps to our digital future"--
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