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

Philip Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441190716 ISBN 13: 9781441190710

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Synopsis

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Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.

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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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441190716
• ISBN 13: 9781441190710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208