Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction : The Shadow of Imagination

Abstract

We cannot imagine our world without its digital mirror anymore. We communicate to others in mediated ways and even create ourselves by the means of our technological devices, presenting an imagined version of us to the outside world. This book is concerned with precisely this imagination of the self in an increasing digitalized society, going back to the beginning of our digital age, to the peak of postmodernism at the end of the 20th century. Looking at urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the journey of fictional protago Show more