ELADATL : a history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines / Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Sesshu, author.

Romo, Arturo Ernesto, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary organizations--Fiction.

Imaginary organizations.

Airships--Fiction.

Airships.

Air travel--Fiction.

Air travel.

Genre:

Fiction.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Humorous fiction.

Physical Description:

317 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2020]

Summary:

"In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles - some as large as one thousand feet long - was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel in the pre-apocalyptic Southwest, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. ELADATL tells the story of this little-known period of American air travel in a series of overlapping narratives told by key figures, accompanied by a number of historic photographs and recently discovered artifacts, with appendices provided to fill in the missing links. The story of the rise and fall of this ill-fated airship movement investigates its long-buried history, replete with heroes, villains, and moments of astonishing triumph and terrifying disaster. Written and presented as an "actual history of a fictional company," this surrealist, experimental novel is a tour de force of politicized fantastic fiction, a work of hybrid art-making distilled into a truly original literary form. Developed over a ten-year period of collaborations, community interventions, and staged performances, ELADATL is a furiously hilarious send-up of academic histories, mainstream narratives, and any traditional notions of the time-space continuum"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sky city

Chicken man

They said someone will come

Kraken attacks and destroys L.A. zeppelins

Following years without communications from downtown, This was what our agents reported

Dear swirling alhambra

Long light of afternoon

The famous TV show

So our best efforts were undone

The last to know

Ball lightning and the general hospital

What Is the purpose of mystery: interview with Oscar Zeta Acosta

Interview with Juan Fish

Interview with the Virgin Defacer

Fly the East L.A. Dirigible Transport Lines

ZAD manifesto.

ISBN:

9780872867703

0872867706

OCLC:

1133663653