Literature After Globalization

Philip Leonard is Reader in Literary Studies and Critical Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Nationality between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave, 2005).

• Acknowledgments \ 1 The ends of man: electronic frontiers in an age of global community \ 2 A space without geography, a nation without borders: The Cybergypsies and the literature of being-in-common \ 3 Teach phenomenology the bomb: Starship Troopers, the technologized body, and humanitarian warfare \ 4 'Secure, anonymous, unregulated': Cryptonomicon and the transnational data haven \ 5 'A revolution in code'? Transmission and the Cultural Politics of Hacking \ 6 'Without return. Without place': rewriting the book and the nation in Only Revolutions \ Bibliography

Elegant, challenging and ambitious, Leonard's Literature after Globalization reads contemporary fiction in terms that ask broad questions about citizenship and national identity in the context of the messy fluidity and flux of our networked world. In the process, he generate a range of important insights into the nature of readership, identity and statehood at the start of the 21st century.