nuevo artículo: Electronic Literature Experimentalism beyond the Great Divide. A Latin American Perspective
Electronic Literature Experimentalism beyond the Great Divide. A Latin American Perspective
It may be true that contemporary digital culture is by now deeply rooted in everyday life of an important part of world´s population?including our habits of writing and reading. Yet digital literature remains more or less invisible to most people. Many people can feel "at home" within digital everyday life and, still, consider that literature is only something related to print books, at most digitized. Regarding this-at first sight-paradoxical situation, in this essay I argue that its cause lies in the strong experimental impetus that digital literature has entailed since its first appearances in mid- 20th century. E-lit has kept this impetus up to the present; therefore, it stays under larger audiences´ radar; audiences who in general play along with mainstream digital culture. However, from my standpoint this e-lit experimentalism, which does not easily accept the whole predigested package of digital culture in its mainstream form and meaning, may also open interesting possibilities
9 de marzo de 2020
