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Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century book cover

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Global Perspectives on Digital Literature A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century

Edited By Torsa Ghosal Copyright 2023
254 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century explores how digital literary forms shape and are shaped by aesthetic and political exchanges happening across languages and nations. The book understands "global" as a mode of comparative thinking and argues for considering various forms of digital literature—the popular, the avant-garde, and the... Read more

Introduction: Global Literary Studies and Digital Literature

Torsa Ghosal

I: REIMAGINING DIGITAL LITERARY STUDIES

  1. Textual Instability: Paradoxes of Literary Remix

    2. Simone Murray 　

  2. Diverse Mappings of Electronic Literature: Expanding the Canon(s)

    3. Mariusz Pisarski

  3. Ludonarrative Postcolonialism: Re-Playing the Colonial Discourse

    4. Souvik Mukherjee

    II. DIGITAL EMBODIMENTS AND DISABILITIES

  4. Games as Critical Literature: Playing with Transhumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Narrative Difference in SOMA

    5. Cody Mejeur

  5. The Horror of Networked Existence: Affect, Connection, and Anxiety in Classic Creepypasta Narratives

    6. Sara Bimo

  6. Networked Chronic Pain Narratives: Locating Disability through Fibromyalgia Facebook Community

    7. Rimi Nandy　　　　　　

    III. FORMS OF RESISTANCE　

  7. The Erasing Impulse: Veiling and Unveiling the Poetic and the Political　　

    8. Álvaro Seiça

  8. Digital Cartoons: Collaborative Activism in Hong Kong

    9. Kin Wai Chu

  9. Between Two Screens: The January 25th Revolution in Egypt

    10. Reham Hosny

  10. ‘If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Fiction

    11. Brian Davis

    IV. MEDIAL AND CULTURAL CROSSINGS

  11. From Oral to Digital and Back: Adinkra Symbols and Kweku Ananse on YouTube

    12. J.B. Amissah-Arthur and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

  12. Bending Voices, Opening Ears: Voice, Music, Sound, and Affect in Digital Literature

    13. Hazel Smith

  13. Intermedial Experience and Discursive Voice in Printed Text, Audiobook, and Podcast: H. P. Lovecraft’s "The Statement of Randolph Carter"

Jarkko Toikkanen and Mari Hatavara

Biography

Torsa Ghosal is the author of a book of literary criticism, Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative, and an experimental novella, Open Couplets, and is the co-editor of Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives. She has a PhD in English from the Ohio State University, where she was awarded a Presidential Fellowship as well as a John Muste Award for best dissertation. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento.

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