The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era: Response to Verónica Paula Gómez

In his response to Gómez’s essay, Liam Connell questions whether the democratic potential of internet-based texts still holds in an era dominated by the reassertion of big tech and private property – which calls into question the utopian quality of the communicative infrastructure we commonly refer to as the internet. He also considers whether postcolonial novels have already achieved the kind of deterritorialisation that Gómez ascribes to electronic literature: “Translation technologies may promise to achieve something more but would that re-enshrine national belonging or further disperse the reader from a national frame?”