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Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television

Editat de Stephen Hock Contribuţii de Joseph M. Conte, Clinton J. Craig, Caitlin R. Duffy, Shannon Finck, Susan Gilmore, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Ashleigh Hardin, Meredith James, Peter Kragh Jensen, Bruce Krajewski, Tim Lanzendörfer, William Magrino, David Markus, Jaclyn Partyka, Steven Rosendale, William G. Welty
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2023
Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful presidential campaign (in terms that often uncannily prefigure his presidency) as well as those that have appeared since he took office. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture. By investigating how authors including Bret Easton Ellis, Amy Waldman, Thomas Pynchon, Howard Jacobson, Mark Doten, Olivia Laing, and Salman Rushdie, along with films and television programs like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street, Sex and the City, Two Weeks Notice, Our Cartoon President, and Pose have approached and shaped the discourse surrounding Trump, the contributors collectively demonstrate the ways these cultural artifacts serve as sites through which the culture both resists and abets Trump and his rise to power.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498598064
ISBN-10: 1498598064
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 13 b/w photos; 1 tables;
Dimensiuni: 154 x 224 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Reading Trump

Stephen Hock



Part I: The Cultural Prehistory of President Trump



Chapter One: A Truly "Free" Psychopathology: Notes on Trumpspace

David Markus



Chapter Two: Trump as "Daddy": American Psycho and Hero Worship in the Neoliberal Era

Caitlin R. Duffy



Chapter Three: Nation Surface Mirror Psycho: A Fantasy of Coherence

Clinton J. Craig



Chapter Four: "Is That Donald Trump's Car?": On the Trail of the Original American Psycho

William Magrino



Chapter Five: Memorializing the Future of Donald Trump in Amy Waldman's The Submission

Stephen Hock



Chapter Six: The Deep Web of Conspiracies: Under the Shadow of Trump Tower in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge

Joseph M. Conte



Chapter Seven: From Faithful Readers to Fake News: Thomas Pynchon, Trump, and the Return of the Postmodern

William G. Welty



Chapter Eight: Trump Traces: Examining Donald Trump's Film and Television Cameos (1990-2004)

Ashleigh Hardin



Chapter Nine: Entitlement and Wealth: The Whiteness of Donald Trump

Peter Kragh Jensen



Chapter Ten: Trump for Kids: Can You Tell Us How to Get a Grump off Sesame Street?

Susan Gilmore



Part II: Trumpocalypse Now



Chapter Eleven: Howard Jacobson's Pussy and the Literary Hot Take

Tim Lanzendörfer



Chapter Twelve: "Terminal Stupidity": Graft Zeppelin and Trump Sky Alpha

Bruce Krajewski



Chapter Thirteen: Our Cartoon President and the Politics of Laughter

Steven Rosendale and Laura Gray-Rosendale



Chapter Fourteen: "Nobody Wants to See That Fuckhead": Ball Culture and Donald Trump in FX's Pose

Meredith James



Chapter Fifteen: Exhausting the Present: Twitter, Trump, and Engagement Fatigue in Olivia Laing's Crudo

Shannon Finck



Chapter Sixteen: "Be a Little Genrequeer": Rushdie's The Golden House in the Age of Post-Truth

Jaclyn Partyka

Recenzii

In an era dominated by fake news and concerns regarding the boundaries between truth and fiction, this book offers an early intervention in the emerging field of Trump studies. It lays down some key markers in debates about the cultural and political origins and implications of the current administration on the way we make, relate to, and share representations today.
A masterful example of contemporary cultural studies, Trump Fiction assembles an array of insightful scholars working at the cutting edge of their fields to offer timely analyses of the social, cultural, and political phenomenon of Trumpism. By examining Trump's presence in a dizzying array of cultural artifacts from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, the collection offers an invaluable historicization of the present. It also lays crucial groundwork for emerging conversations about the defining cultural forms of the present by exploring contemporary cultural responses to Trump's candidacy and presidency. Filled with smart observations and juicy tidbits, these essays promise to engage, inform, and ultimately reshape the way we understand where we've been and where we're going.
Trump Fiction explores the imagined Trump-the Trump writers represent in fiction and poetry, the Trump we imagine behind his desk in the Oval Office and in front of the TV, phone in hand, and perhaps the biggest fiction of all, the Trump imagined by Trump himself. Byreading these fictions in the context of the larger historical trends that produced the phenomenon and figure of Trump, the essays in Trump Fiction do the important work of helping us understand not only where our 45th president came from but where he is taking us. The chances for a healthier post-#45 US depend on the degree to which we are able to heed the warnings produced by essential books like Trump Fiction.