Global perspectives on digital literature : a critical introduction for the twenty-first century / edited by Torsa Ghosal.

I. Reimagining Digital Literary Studies / Torsa Ghosal -- Textual Instability: Paradoxes of Literary Remix / Simone Murray -- Diverse Mappings of Electronic Literature: Expanding the Canon(s) / Mariusz Pisarski -- Ludonarrative Postcolonialism: Re-playing the Colonial Discourse / Souvik Mukherjee -- II. Digital Embodiments and Disabilities / Torsa Ghosal -- Games as Critical Literature: Playing with Transhumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Narrative Difference in SOMA / Cody Mejeur -- The Horror of Networked Existence: Affect, Connection, and Anxiety in Classic Creepypasta Narratives / Sara Bimo -- Networked Chronic Pain Narratives: Locating Disability through Fibromyalgia Facebook Community / Rimi Nandy -- III. Forms of Resistance / Torsa Ghosal -- The Erasing Impulse: Veiling and Unveiling the Poetic and the Political / Álvaro Seiça -- Digital Political Cartoons: Collaborative Activism in Hong Kong / Kin Wai Chu -- Between Two Screens: The January 25th Revolution in Egypt / Reham Hosny -- 'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Fiction / Brian Davis -- IV. Medial and Cultural Crossings / Torsa Ghosal -- From Oral to Digital and Back: Adinkra Symbols and Kweku Ananse on YouTube / J.B. Amissah-Arthur and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Bending Voices, Opening Ears: Voice, Music, Sound and Affect in Digital Literature / Hazel Smith -- Intermedial Experience and Discursive Voice in Printed Text, Audiobook, and Podcast: H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Statement of Randolph Carter' / Jarkko Toikkanen and Mari Hatavara.

"Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century explores how digital literary forms shape and are shaped by aesthetic and political exchanges happening across languages and nations. The book understands 'global' as a mode of comparative thinking and argues for considering various forms of digital literature-the popular, the avant-garde, and the participatory-as realizing and producing global thought in the twenty-first century. Attending to issues of both political and aesthetic representation, the book includes a diverse group of contributors and a diverse corpus of texts, composed in a variety of languages and regions, including East and South Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Australia, and Africa. The book's contributors adopt a wide array of interpretive approaches to make visible new connections and possibilities engendered by cross-cultural encounters. Among other topics, they reflect on the shifting conditions for production and distribution of literature, participatory cultures and technological affordances of Web 2.0, the ever-changing dynamics of global and local forces, and address fundamental questions such as, what do we mean when we talk about literature today? What is the future of literature?"-- Provided by publisher.