1st Edition

Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature Voices Gone Viral

By Joelle Mann Copyright 2021
224 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a historical analysis of voice studies and media studies. After situating research through voices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, this book examines the expressions of a multi-media vocality, examining the interactions among... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1

Facing the Voices of the Imagetext in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen

Chapter 2

Voices within the Neoliberal Machine in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King

Chapter 3

Listening to the Vocal Remix and Surround Sound of Jennifer Egan’s Goon Squad

Chapter 4

Vocal and Comic Deformance in Michael Chabon and Junot Díaz

Chapter 5

The M/other Tongues of Michel Cunningham, Joseph O’Neill, and Colum McCann

Conclusion

Biography

Joelle Mann is faculty in the Writing Initiative at Binghamton University, where she teaches courses on composition, rhetoric, technical writing, and digital writing. Joelle’s research investigates changing medial tropes and their sociopolitical implications in multimodal literature and writing. Aside from earning her doctorate from Stony Brook University, Joelle also has advanced teaching certifications in Media, Art, and Technology as well as in Cultural Studies. She is on the executive board for the SUNY Council on Writing, and she has published articles in a variety of literary journals, including Critique: Contemporary Studies in Fiction, Children’s Literature, The American Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literature, and Pedagogy and Literary Studies.