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    The Silicon Valley Novel

    Eve, Martin Paul and Street, Joe (2018) The Silicon Valley Novel. Literature & History 27 (1), pp. 81-97. ISSN 2050-4594.

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    Abstract

    In this article we propose that one of the emergent, but under-charted, and as-yet un-named thematic strands in recent American fiction and that contributes to a recent literary history is that of the “Silicon Valley novel”. The trend can be seen in the literary fiction of Tony Tulathimutte, Jarett Kobek, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Dave Eggers, to name but a few, but also in the trilogy of novels by Ann Bridges dubbed, “The Silicon Valley Trilogy”. Silicon Valley novels are concerned with the emergent technological industry in the Bay Area but they are also of a specific periodising moment. Hence, while named for the geography, we here situate the Silicon Valley novel as more tied to time in the early twenty-first century.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Depositing User: Martin Eve
    Date Deposited: 20 Nov 2017 14:11
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:42
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20365

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