Flyover fictions : polarization in U. S.-American culture, media, and politics / edited by Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klecker, Cornelia, editor.

Pöhlmann, Sascha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polarization (Social sciences)--United States--History--21st century.

Polarization (Social sciences).

Literature and society--United States--History--21st century.

Literature and society.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 342 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Flyover Fictions critically engages with the history and contemporary usage of the flyover trope in U.S.-American culture, and it is the first volume to repurpose the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies to analyze particular processes of imagining community"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : what are flyover fictions? / Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann

Part 1. Flyover fictions and contemporary U.S.-American politics

Rethinking "flyovercCountry" in the age of American hyper-polarization / Anthony Harkins

Flyover fiction as Republican identity politics / Cornelia Klecker

Part 2. Constructing flyover fictions in and with film

"If you build it..." : the sports experience economy and heartland dreams / Victoria E. Johnson

Flying over the "forgotten man" : affective affordances, sentimentalism, and white working-class masculinity in contemporary U.S. cinema / Stefan Schubert

Acceleration, vacancy, and insiders/outsiders : the Midwestern gothic in It Follows (2014) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) / Adam R. Ochonicky

Part 3. Flyover fictions in twentieth-century literature

The literary beginnings of flyover fiction in the 1920s / Sascha Pöhlmann

Writing the Midwest in exile : Robert McAlmon's village : as it happened through a fifteen year period (1924) and queer distance / Ben Robbins

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

Aerial views, pedestrian ways : fragmentation in D.J. Waldie's Holy Land / Dominika Ferens

"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

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)

Looking back to move forward? : constructing medieval heritage in the Midwest / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Kristan Cockerill

Straight TikTok as digital flyover country / Mark Nunes

Literary epilogue

Watchmaking : an original short story / Tom Drury.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496242525

1496242521

9781496242532

149624253X

OCLC:

1513158398