Feeling the disconnect : tension between author’s content and novel’s form in Super Sad True Love Story.

• Main Author: Lee, Jennifer Ching-Mei.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52165
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In our current era of digital literacy, consumerism, and youth-worship, how have the status of the author and the novel been revised? This paper examines how Gary Shteyngart attempts to negotiate this twenty-first century hegemony in his novel Super Sad True Love Story, written in 2010. In the novel...