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03840aam a2200541 i 4500 001 5AE1C560DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210823s2021 gau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021021553 020 $a 0820360562 020 $a 9780820360560 020 $a 0820360554 020 $a 9780820360553 035 $a (OCoLC)1252961675 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d SYB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.T434 $b N39 2021 082 00 $a 813/.609356 $2 23 100 1 $a Naydan, Liliana M., $e author. 245 10 $a Flat-world fiction : $b digital humanity in early twenty-first-century America / $c Liliana M. Naydan. 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2021] 300 $a x, 217 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: American Literature and Digital Technology in the New Millennium -- Relationships with Technology in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story and Kristen Roupenian's "Cat Person" -- Searching History in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad -- The Digital Divine in Joshua Ferris's To Rise Again at a Decent Hour and Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am -- Cybercapitalism in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis and Dave Eggers's The Circle -- National Divides and Digitization in Zadie Smith's "Meet the President!" and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West -- Conclusion: Flat-World Fiction and the Textured Future. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Technology in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and technology $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Digital media $x Social aspects. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Digital media $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01766776 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Literature and technology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000104 650 7 $a Technology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01145292 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780820360577 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024244.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5AE1C560DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search