Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Literature has become a significant space for negotiating the boundaries between the virtual world and the real world in the era of technology which constantly mediates with perception, identity and emotion.No One Is Talking About This (2021), authored by Patricia Lockwood explores how identity, memory and storytelling is redefined in a hyperconnected, data-driven world by depicting the liminal space between the digital and the corporeal self.In this paper, I examine the conflict between the two forms of self, the digitally mediated self and the embodied/ corporeal self, by exploring how storytelling and memory intersect in a state of technological saturation.The paper also examines how Lockwood's representation of a movement from fragmentation in the digital world to embodied trauma, reclaims the body as the site of memory, emotions, and meaning in a world which is increasingly getting dissociated from the material.The digital and the corporeal, therefore coexist in a state of tension and each aspect shapes how the 'self' senses, experiences, remembers, and narrates.
Source: Literary Voice
Institution: Brainware University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7204603354