Ecstatic consumption: the spectable of global dystopia in contemporary American literature

While modernity aspired to 'fix' radical alienation through aesthetics by assigning an ethical value to narratives, contemporary literature and the arts are no longer immune to the impact of commodity culture amplified by globalization.

In the world of commodity, corporate logic, and cyborgs, the very notion of identity is frequently turned into a spectacle.

Yet, it is also simultaneously mobilized by the search for what Jean Baudrillard describes as the 'ecstatic' form that materializes aesthetics.

This title investigates not only how these transformations affect gender, racial, and class relations, as well as how they impact the representation of historical events.