ENGL 4W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dangerous Power
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You are we: the ominous emergence of a dazzling collective in jennifer egan"s black box. Jennifer egan"s black box defies definition into conventional literary categories, yet conforms to convention in another way. It is written in sentences of 140 characters or less and was published as a series of tweets released over nine days. Black box in form seems to refuse to submit to a literary canon where it would disappear as one of many; it appears to stand out as individual. However, black box"s formatic uniqueness may obscure a different kind of conformity to which the story submits. The prominence of a digital age in the united states and globally has changed the way people communicate and information is passed. Seen or unseen, technology has entered into every facet of daily life, and while black box strays from the norm of published fiction, it conforms to technology-heavy methods of communication on which the country is reliant.
