Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the “flyover country” trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.
Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the “flyover country” trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Cornelia Klecker is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. She is the author of Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film and the editor in chief of the Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Sascha Pöhlmann is a professor of American literature and culture at Technical University Dortmund. He is the author of Future-Founding Poetry: Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the Twenty-First Century and Vote with a Bullet: Assassination in American Fiction.
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List of Illustrations Introduction: What Are Flyover Fictions? Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann Part 1. Flyover Fictions and Contemporary U.S.-American Politics 1. Rethinking “Flyover Country” in the Age of American Hyperpolarization Anthony Harkins 2. Flyover Fiction as Republican Identity Politics Cornelia Klecker Part 2. Constructing Flyover Fictions in and with Film 3. “If You Build It . . .”: The Sports Experience Economy and Heartland Dreams Victoria E. Johnson 4. Flying over the “Forgotten Man”: Affective Affordances, Sentimentalism, and White Working-Class Masculinity in Contemporary U.S. Cinema Stefan Schubert 5. The Midwestern Gothic in It Follows and Only Lovers Left Alive: Acceleration, Vacancy, and Insiders/Outsiders Adam R. Ochonicky Part 3. Flyover Fictions in Twentieth-Century Literature 6. The Literary Beginnings of Flyover Fiction in the 1920s Sascha Pöhlmann 7. Writing the Midwest in Exile: Robert McAlmon’s Village: As It Happened through a Fifteen Year Period and Queer Distance Ben Robbins 8. Flying over a Lynching: Constructions of Group Identity in Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square” Martin Holtz Part 4. Flyover Fictions in Twenty-First-Century Literature 9. Aerial Views, Pedestrian Ways: Fragmentation in D. J. Waldie’s Holy Land Dominika Ferens 10. “A Little Agony Was Just What This Place Needed”: Looking for California in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus and Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State Michael Docherty 11. Destination Flyover State: The Transnational Perspective of Joachim Meyerhoff’s All the Dead Fly Up: America Sandra Tausel Part 5. Finding Flyover Fictions (in Unusual Places and Unusual Ways) 12. Looking Back to Move Forward? Constructing Medieval Heritage in the Midwest Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Kristan Cockerill 13. Straight TikTok as Digital Flyover Country Mark Nunes Literary Epilogue Watchmaking: A Short Story Tom Drury Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Introduction: What Are Flyover Fictions? Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann Part 1. Flyover Fictions and Contemporary U.S.-American Politics 1. Rethinking “Flyover Country” in the Age of American Hyperpolarization Anthony Harkins 2. Flyover Fiction as Republican Identity Politics Cornelia Klecker Part 2. Constructing Flyover Fictions in and with Film 3. “If You Build It . . .”: The Sports Experience Economy and Heartland Dreams Victoria E. Johnson 4. Flying over the “Forgotten Man”: Affective Affordances, Sentimentalism, and White Working-Class Masculinity in Contemporary U.S. Cinema Stefan Schubert 5. The Midwestern Gothic in It Follows and Only Lovers Left Alive: Acceleration, Vacancy, and Insiders/Outsiders Adam R. Ochonicky Part 3. Flyover Fictions in Twentieth-Century Literature 6. The Literary Beginnings of Flyover Fiction in the 1920s Sascha Pöhlmann 7. Writing the Midwest in Exile: Robert McAlmon’s Village: As It Happened through a Fifteen Year Period and Queer Distance Ben Robbins 8. Flying over a Lynching: Constructions of Group Identity in Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square” Martin Holtz Part 4. Flyover Fictions in Twenty-First-Century Literature 9. Aerial Views, Pedestrian Ways: Fragmentation in D. J. Waldie’s Holy Land Dominika Ferens 10. “A Little Agony Was Just What This Place Needed”: Looking for California in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus and Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State Michael Docherty 11. Destination Flyover State: The Transnational Perspective of Joachim Meyerhoff’s All the Dead Fly Up: America Sandra Tausel Part 5. Finding Flyover Fictions (in Unusual Places and Unusual Ways) 12. Looking Back to Move Forward? Constructing Medieval Heritage in the Midwest Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Kristan Cockerill 13. Straight TikTok as Digital Flyover Country Mark Nunes Literary Epilogue Watchmaking: A Short Story Tom Drury Contributors Index
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