{"product_id":"the-politics-of-transparency-in-paula-martain-salvaan-9781640141667","title":"The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction: Fear, Secrecy, and Exposure","description":"Explores modern and contemporary American literature's contribution to and critique of the newly emerging field of transparency studies \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe essays draw on authors ranging from Whitman, James, and Ellison to Pynchon, Morrison, and Eggers to argue that American literature complicates theoretical assumptions about transparency made in other disciplines. They question the field's strong theoretical emphasis on present-day technopolitical practices and discourses as the location of hegemonic discourse on transparency, and instead historicize such phenomena and extend them to discursive spheres that have so far been neglected (such as issues of sexuality and race). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited by Paula Mart?n-Salv?n and Sascha P?hlmann. Contributors: Tomasz Basiuk, Jes?s Blanco Hidalga, Cristina Chevereșan, Michel Feith, Juli?n Jim?nez Heffernan, Tiina K?kel?, Juan L. P?rez-de-Luque, Umberto Rossi, Jelena Sesnic, Toon Staes, Julia Straub, Alice Sundman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Martain Salvaan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1640141669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640141667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Camden House (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Paula Martain Salvaan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46140926066943,"sku":"9781640141667","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a30a8401-477b-4b38-95e8-9024881eb8e6.jpg?v=1726597428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-politics-of-transparency-in-paula-martain-salvaan-9781640141667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}