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Author:

Johnston, Katherine D., 1981- author.

Title:

Profiles and plotlines : data surveillance in twenty-first century literature / Katherine D. Johnston.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xv, 207 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Surveillance in literature.
Technology in literature.
Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 187-201) and index.)

Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- One. Watching the Watchers: Metadata and Feminist Metafiction in Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' -- Two. Out of Line: Affective Counterstrategies to Racializing Surveillance and Profile Epistemology in Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen' -- Three. "Both a Gift and a Trap": Speculative Surveillance and Labor in William Gibson's 'Pattern Recognition' -- Four. Data Fictions, Neoliberal Narratives, and the Military-Industrial Gaze in Mohsin Hamid's 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia' -- Conclusion: Amazon, Authorship, and Algorithmic Governance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Series:

The new American canon series

ISBN:

9781609388935
1609388933

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1358748522

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)