ISHU 3040
Contemporary American Literature in the Digital Age
Course Description
Examines how American authors explored the issue of technology when the age of television gradually yielded to the digital age. Considers how new forms of technology have fundamentally changed the ways in which realism is depicted in literature. Pays particular attention to those texts that engage with technoculture around the turn of the 21st century. Considers writers such as Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, and Karen Tei Yamashita.