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T1 “Welcome to America 2.0”: Reading Waste in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
T2 “Bienvenid@ a America 2.0”: una lectura de lo residual en Super Sad True Love Story de Gary Shteyngart
A1 Urdiales-Shaw, Martín
K1 waste
K1 globalization
K1 citizenship
K1 social ethics
K1 cultural practices
K1 dystopia
K1 satire
AB This article proposes a reading of Gary Shteyngart’s celebrated novel Super Sad True LoveStory (2010), a text that straddles the dystopian and the satiric in its depiction of a quasi-contemporary America, from the perspective of Waste Studies. Through the problematicrelationship between its two main characters, Shteyngart’s novel articulates the wide-rangingeffects of globalization on a generationally-ruptured American society, that in many waysstands also for the First World at large. Drawing from sociologists, cultural critics, and phi-losophers like Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Byung-Chul Han, John Scanlan and SusanSontag, who have theorized how individuals today are molded, challenged and threatenedby powerful extrinsic forces in the era of globalization, this article aims to explore howSuper Sad True Love Story showcases a range of mutually interrelated “modes of waste,”resulting from the writer’s pushing to a satiric/dystopic extreme contemporary Americanpractices in politics and finance, citizenship and social ethics, culture and language, andeven biological research.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32175
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32175
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 05-may-2024