Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- Part III Themes
- 11 Convergence
- 12 Dissolution
- 13 Immobility
- 14 Insecurity
- Further Reading
- Index
11 - Convergence
from Part III - Themes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- Part III Themes
- 11 Convergence
- 12 Dissolution
- 13 Immobility
- 14 Insecurity
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Mark Goble uses the concept of convergence to explore the implications of formal and temporal compression, economy, and slowness in an age of unprecedented expansion and speedup. Richard McGuire’s Here presents an extreme example of spatial restriction and temporal expansion, while novels by Ruth Ozeki, Richard Powers, and William Gibson juxtapose ecological, scientific, technological, and theological timespans to human ones in ways that echo postmodern and science fiction precursors, but with very different aims and warnings in mind for denizens of the Anthropocene.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction , pp. 215 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021