Article: Sensations and solidarity: Affect, ambience, and politics in digital literary narratives
Abstract
This article studies the literary, affective, and political possibilities generated by digital literary micro-narratives published on Terri-bly Tiny Tales, a popular micro-blogging platform in India. More specifically, it will study the narratives which relate to the theme of gender politics, rape culture, patriarchy, misogyny, etc. within the contextual framework of a change in the nature of public discourse in Indian digital spaces after the brutal rape and murder of a young resident of New Delhi in 2012. This article argues that the peculiar digital and affective poetics of micro-narratives combined with their modality of circulation and the infrastructure of digital media platforms produces a form of ambient politics, characterised by its sensory and mundane qualities.
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Khilnani, Shweta: Sensations and solidarity: Affect, ambience, and politics in digital literary narratives. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 10 (2021-06-05), Nr. 1, S. 173-193. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16273.
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 author = {Khilnani, Shweta},
 title = {Sensations and solidarity: Affect, ambience, and politics in digital literary narratives},
 year = 2021-06-05,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16273}",
 volume = 10,
 journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 1,
 pages = {173--193},
}
 author = {Khilnani, Shweta},
 title = {Sensations and solidarity: Affect, ambience, and politics in digital literary narratives},
 year = 2021-06-05,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16273}",
 volume = 10,
 journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 1,
 pages = {173--193},
}
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