Explores modern and contemporary American literature's contribution to and critique of the newly emerging field of transparency studies.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Politics of Transparency - Paula Martín-Salván1. Walt Whitman's Poetry of Intimacy - Sascha Pöhlmann2. The Lives and Times of Henry James and F.O. Matthiessen: The Neoliberal Transparent Society and Its Liberal Enemies - Julián Jiménez Heffernan3. The Intelligibility of Coming Out as Gay - Tomasz Basiuk4. Invisibility and Exposure in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) and George Schuyler's Black No More (1931) - Michel Feith5. The Transparency of the Scanner, The Opacity of the Simulacra: The Politics of Vision in Philip K. Dick's Oeuvre - Umberto Rossi6. "Angrier than thou": Secrecy vs. Exposure in Philip Roth's I Married a Communist - Cristina Chevere¿an7. Political Secrets in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy - Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque8. Secrecy and Exposure in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Alice Sundman9. Something Big and Invisible: Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and the Limits of Transparency - Tiina Käkelä10. Narrating the Community in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel: Story, History, System - Toon Staes11. Literary Imagination at the Digital Frontier: Dave Eggers's Recent Technological Dystopian Novels - Jelena Šesni¿12. "The Joy of Confession": Narratives of Disclosure in Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads - Jesús Blanco Hidalga13. Celebrity 2.0: Female Influencer Figures in Contemporary American Fiction - Julia StraubNotes on ContributorsIndex