Flyover Fictions: Polarization in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics - Hardcover

 
9781496238993: Flyover Fictions: Polarization in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1496238990 ISBN 13: 9781496238993
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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. The term “flyover” arose in the 1970s with variations—“flyover country,” “flyover states”—mainly used as synonyms for the American Midwest in intranational banter regarding cultural differences from the dominant urban centers of New York City and Los Angeles. In recent years, the trope has shifted away from this playfulness and its traditional geographic reference points to indicate larger political and cultural developments that speak of a deepening polarization in the United States.

Flyover Fictions is an exploration of the trope’s current politicization, historical contexts, and general proliferation of meanings. Instead of resolving the ambiguities inherent in the concept, the volume considers what can be done with these ambiguities, and how precisely their fuzziness might be used to create an analytic tool to describe, understand, and critique processes of cultural hierarchization. The contributors show how flyover fictions may operate in different national contexts and also internationally or transnationally, not only providing a fresh perspective on historical and contemporary American culture but also supplying a conceptual toolbox for broader use.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1496238990
ISBN 13 
9781496238993
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
342
Herausgeber
Klecker Cornelia, Phlmann Sascha
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