The Post-Truth Era

This edited volume brings together authors across the world to share their ideas, views, contemplations, assessments and theories about disinformation and post-truth in literature and media from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book gives an idea as to how the emerging trend of truth crisis, fake news and manipulated information leads to ideological antagonism, ethical conflicts and geopolitical power struggles in society. It has got revealing chapters that discuss the propensity to inquire into the data that satisfies the overtones of the personal emotions and beliefs that undermines facts and truths. Being an observant set of structured ideas having twenty-seven chapters, the book discusses diverse domains such as conspiracy ideologies, alt-facts of the contemporary era, signs and science of truth, post-truth politics of gender, political advertisements, realism and hyperreality, fifth estate and the third space, posthuman pataphysics, performativity and fiction, media renunciation, identity dynamics, and cultural obliteration. About the Editors Praveen Abraham has experience in academia for more than a decade. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Kochi, Kerala and a Doctoral Research Scholar in Media and Gender Studies at REVA University, Bengaluru, Karnataka. He has worked as an assistant professor in prestigious colleges and universities including Kristu Jayanti College and REVA University, Bengaluru. Raisun Mathew is a Doctoral Research Scholar in the Department of English at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. He completed his graduation in English Literature, Communication Studies and Journalism (Triple Main) and post-graduation in English from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. He has also a Masters in Public Administration from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.