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The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction: Fear, Secrecy, and Exposure

The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction: Fear, Secrecy, and Exposure

Basiuk, Tomasz
Martín-Salván, Paula
Pohlmann, Sascha

Hardcover

Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture, Book 25

Literary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1640141669
ISBN13: 9781640141667
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Sep 24 2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Explores modern and contemporary American literature's contribution to and critique of the newly emerging field of transparency studies

In the twenty-first century, transparency has become an ambiguous buzzword both in the public and the private realms (e.g., Wikileaks and the Snowden affair; social media). This volume takes its cue from the emerging field of transparency studies, recent scholarly work in sociology, political theory, and cultural studies that identifies a hegemonic rhetoric of transparency in public and political life. While scholars in this new field routinely gesture toward literature as the realm where secrecy may be productive, they rarely engage with literature directly, and literary studies itself remains notably absent from their debates. This collection of essays seeks to redress that state of affairs by focusing on literary texts written in an American cultural tradition steeped in the interplay between transparency and exposure, fear and secrecy, security and surveillance, and information and disinformation.

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