The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

This collection aims to explore the literary and political challenges the digital age poses for the genre of the novel. Without a doubt, it is having a profound impact on all aspects of the literary process, opening up a new context that redefines creative processes, reading practices, distribution methods, and critical reception. Digital issues and practices affect fundamental notions of literary studies. But how are these changes reflected in the novel itself? How has this new context redefined relations with the political sphere (if at all)? What kind of political novel is possible in the digital age?

Table of contents

• The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era. Introduction
  Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles
• The Digitalization of the Novel and Platformization of Cultural Production: Practices, Hierarchies, Texts: the Russian Case
  Anna Murashova
• Response to Anna Murashova's Contribution
  Isabell A. Meske
• Digital Platforms and the Geopolitics of English in Mithu Sanyal‘s Novel “Identitti”
  Puo-an Francisca Wu Fu
• Digital (Paratextual) Economies in And Other Stories and Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s "The Visitors” (2022): Between Autonomy and Subsumption
  Joana Roqué Pesquer
• Impotent Forms: “Crabwalk” and the Political Novel
  Sophie Salvo
• Response to Sophie Salvo’s Contribution
  Elias Kreuzmair
• Beyond the Idea of Nation: The Political Domicile of Digital Literature in the Interzone
  Verónica Paula Gómez
• Response to Verónica Paula Gómez
  Liam Connell