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...Victoria Saramago Abstract The Amazonian region occupies a singular place in the fiction and nonfiction of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Author of paradigmatic novels on the Peruvian Amazon, Vargas Llosa nevertheless has repeatedly defended extensive exploitation of Amazonian natural...

.../recommendation/collaborative/basics > (accessed 21 Aug. 2023). Hao Karen . “ Amazon Is the Invisible Backbone of ICE’s Immigration Crackdown .” MIT Technology Review 22 Oct. 2018 < https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/139639/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration...

... of a singular brain. It comes as a surprise then that Jeff Bezos counts Remains as one of his favorite books—a catalyst, in fact, to the richest man in the world's founding of the corporate behemoth Amazon. Brouillette reports rather grimly that Bezos “claims it is the foundation of his ‘regret...

... “curators” and “consecrators” of reading pleasure. Some of these are algorithmic (Amazon.com’s “Better Together” feature [70 while others are human (Amazon’s “List Maniacs” [71–76], NPR librarian-commentator Nancy Pearl [82–87], and of course Oprah Winfrey [87–114 Since the 1980s, intermediaries like...

... a key role in defining more famil- iar categories of human difference. Eve, for instance, was viewed as a "defective man" (23) and the figure of the Amazon linked female strength and bodily mutilation. The protagonist in Sarah Fielding's David Simple is described as the "first man of feeling...

... blocks the view. Amazon finds the word “ways” on 215 of the book's 291 pages; as the quote illustrates, it often multiplies. I fault the press here. We all err; Plotz has blessedly few typos or factual errors (mostly when he goes outside the English-language arena), but someone should have called...

... that the temporality of the novel is out of step with contemporary experience. In his article on the effects of Amazon on literary culture, Mark McGurl argues that “what makes the novel so interesting as a ‘neoliberal’ commodity is its partial temporal disjunction from the real-time regime” ( 465 ). McGurl juxtaposes...

... of No Towers , a “board book” (as Amazon calls it) or graphic novel. Both texts focus on the visual and iconic aspects of 9/11, either by attempting to mirror the visual form of the towers somehow (Beigbeder) or by graphic storytelling, and they therefore engage with the uniquely visual aspect of how 9/11...

... and human intelligence into a service for improving automated systems. Amazon Mechanical Turk is the most infamous example of a microwork platform, but the model is prevalent in a host of crowdsourcing platforms that rely on a volunteer labor pool (think citizen science projects). Such styles of work, which...

... involved in writing or reading any particular work of postcolonial genre fiction are simply different from the significance of including Chinua Achebe in an English literary survey. Lagoon is but one African science fiction novel. There are myriad others. If you like one, Amazon will suggest several more...

..., to any woman or man, of European descent or not, thus threatening the gatekeeping of the clerisy. A case in point: “Searching” ends with glimpses of Amazon reviews of Bartlett's . “Counting” is deliberately eclectic in method and in types of texts: Treasure Island ; less-known fiction by Arthur...

... became newly committed to fieldwork and empirical investigation. But the jungle Lundblad examines is freed from denotative moorings, pointing to a “logic” rather than geographic contact zones. (I am thinking, for instance, of Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz's expedition to the Amazon to collect...

... : G. Newbold , 1851 . Mazzoni Guido . Theory of the Novel . Trans. Hanafi Zakiya . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2017 . McGurl Mark . “ Everything and Less: Fiction in the Age of Amazon .” Modern Language Quarterly 77 . 3 ( 2016 ): 447 – 71 . Miller D...

..., and genre fiction arrives on a near-equal playing field once that field's imagined autonomy is all but wiped out by the outsized influence of corporations like Amazon on literary production, consumption, and valuation. Literary value is not dependent on genre, but rather on the perceived seriousness...

...). The language of kindness, freedom, and flexibility has become central to the operations of corporations that place their workers in greater states of precarity while promising them even more freedom, independence, and even fun. Witness Amazon's use of gamification to motivate its workers by setting up video...

..., but clashed with the comic-satiric tone of the novel that was appended to it. Waugh, how- ever, insisted to Yorke that the episode was necessary: "IT]he Amazon stuff had to be there. The scheme was a Gothic man in the hands of savages-first Mrs. Beaver etc. then the real ones, finally the silver foxes...

... forward on its own . . . it transforms the subjects that controlled it into operators of the writing machine that orders and uses them.” If that was true in 1980, how much more so is it in the Google era? With iPhones archiving all our spatial transits, Facebook and Amazon mapping our structures...

... Benjamin's film actor, we are performing our own alienation from our own powers of self-representation by use of multimedia registers in which “we” constitute ourselves as such. Consider your daily log of sent e-mails, tweets, Facebook posts, notes on your phone, Amazon and Apple purchases, all of which...

... destructive fossil fuel giants, including Chevron and Adani, and they have been involved in land grabs and deforestation in the Amazon and in the United States, which have displaced Black and Indigenous communities. See you there? 1 For excellent readings of the role of sexuality in the novel...

...: Political Ecology, the Local Trap, and the Politics of Development in the Brazilian Amazon .” Geoforum 36 . 5 ( 2005 ): 607 – 24 . Buckland Adelene . Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2013 . Chakrabarty Dipesh...