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Internet technologies in contemporary Nigerian fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penny Bicol Cartwright (0000-0001-6430-4976) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 660-673 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2023.2233709 |
| OpenAlex | W4385494924 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This article examines the representation of Internet technologies in two recent Nigerian comic novels, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's (2009) I Do Not Come to You by Chance and A. Igoni Barrett's (2015) Blackass. Departing from founding mythologies of the Internet as a space of global assimilation and extending beyond extant postcolonial concerns with technological exclusion or malfunction, the article demonstrates how Internet technologies facilitate forms of global subjectification that amplify rather than diminish national consciousness. Reading Nwaubani's representations of "419" email fraud alongside Barrett's experimental approach to Twitter form, the article shows how both novels critically reflect upon the globalizing potentials and limitations of Internet technologies from the perspective of a "post-development" Nigeria. It argues that these novels depict characters dialectically engaging with national and global contexts – mobilizing national stereotypes to address global audiences – yet, in turn, redeploying global capital (financial and cultural) to achieve more localized forms of status
Media studies · Political science · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subjectification · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |