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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955164303321

Autore

Leonard Philip

Titolo

Literature after globalization : textuality, technology and the nation-state / / Philip Leonard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2013

ISBN

9781441105783

1441105786

9781785392788

1785392786

9781472543677

147254367X

9781283950831

1283950839

9781441155733

1441155732

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury collections

Disciplina

809.9335

Soggetti

Literature and globalization

Literature and technology

Nationalism and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- 1 The ends of man: electronic frontiers in an age of global community -- 2 A space without geography, a nation without borders: The Cybergypsies and the literature of being-in-common -- 3 Teach phenomenology the bomb: Starship Troopers, the technologized body, and humanitarian warfare -- 4 'Secure, anonymous, unregulated': Cryptonomicon and the transnational data haven -- 5 'A revolution in code'? Transmission and the Cultural Politics of Hacking -- 6 'Without return. Without place': rewriting the book and the nation in Only Revolutions -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

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Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism."--Bloomsbury Publishing.