198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Global Literature and the Digital analyses the continued impact of the digital revolution upon contemporary literature. From the vantage of the 2020s, global literature possesses a digital sensibility where reality and perceptions are shaped by digital saturation and global networks. Time becomes on-demand and space seems to contract as we engage beyond national borders. The book explores the... Read more

Introduction

1. This Just In: Mediatization and Rise of the Digital

2. Through a Digital Lens: Perception and Surveillance of Digital Worlds

3. From Print to Pixels: Digital Texts and Interactive Media

4. A Post-Apocalyptic Future? AI and the Post-digital

Conclusion: Documenting a Digital Crisis?

Index

Biography

Tegan Schetrumpf is an independent scholar of poetic formalism from the Renaissance to the digital, published in Meanjin, Antipodes, and Feeding the Ghost: Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry (2018). She is Creative Editor for Alterity Studies and World Literature and Reviews Editor for Critical South Asian Studies.

Aleks Wansbrough, PhD, is a cultural theorist who teaches screen and art theory at the University of Sydney, Australia, and is the author of Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen: Myths and Allegories in the Digital Age (2020) and co-editor of Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities: COVID-19, the (Post) Apocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial (2024).

Om Prakash Dwivedi is Professor of English and Director of Liberal Arts and Humanities at Chandigarh University, Uttar Pradesh, India, and Adjunct Professor at Alma Mater Europaea University, Slovenia. He helped judge the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2023. His latest publication is the co-edited Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability (2024).