Binding: Hardcover
Description: The task of identifying the individual has given rise to a number of technical innovations including fingerprint analysis and DN a profiling. A range of methods have also been created for storing and classifying people's identities such as identity cards and digital records. Identification Practices and Twentieth - Century Fiction tests the hypothesis that these techniques and methods as practiced in the UK and US in the long 20th century are inherently related to the literary representation of self - identity from the same period. Until now the question of 'who one is in the sense of formal identification has remained detached from the question of 'who one is in terms of the representation of unique individuality. Placing these two questions in dialogue allows for a re - evaluation of the various ways in which uniqueness has been constructed during the period and for a re - assessment of the historical and literary historical context of such construction. In chapters ranging across the development of fingerprinting the institution of identity cards during the Second World War DN a profiling and contemporary digital surveillance and an analysis of writing by authors including Joseph Conrad Graham Greene Elizabeth Bowen J. G. Ballard Don De Lillo and Jennifer Egan Identification Practices and Twentieth - Century Fiction makes an original contribution to the disciplines of English Literature History and Cultural Studies.
Title: Identification Practices In Twentieth - Century Fiction
Author(s): Ferguson Rex (Senior Lecturer In English Literature University Of Birmingham Uk)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198865568
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 10/25/2021
Category: Cultural Studies