{"product_id":"flyover-fictions-polarization-in-u-s-american-culture-media-and-politics-hardback-9781496238993","title":"Flyover Fictions; Polarization in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics (Hardback) 9781496238993","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFlyover Fictions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolarization in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCornelia Klecker (Edited by), Sascha Pöhlmann (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496238993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e354 pages, 7 photographs, 4 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFlyover Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to its field with its warning: ‘Coastals’ insulting ‘Flyovers’ (or vice versa) have practically become the muzzle flashes that Yank versus Johnny Reb and that Yankee versus Tory once were. An eclectic discussion, the volume’s scholarship is cutting-edge. \u003ci\u003eFlyover Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e should serve advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and specialized readers.”-Russell Burrows, author of \u003ci\u003eReading Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose”\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The recent politicization of the term ‘flyover’ is one of the reasons the subject is particularly important at the moment. The balancing act between an examination of flyover country as a place connected at least tangentially to a particular geography and an exploration of flyover country as a broader concept with multiple applications is well done. This is a well-thought-out collection that reads as a cohesive whole.”-Michael K. Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlyover Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlyover Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: What Are Flyover Fictions?\u003cbr\u003e Cornelia Klecker and Sascha PÖhlmann \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 1. Flyover Fictions and Contemporary U.S.-American Politics\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rethinking “Flyover Country” in the Age of American Hyperpolarization\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Harkins\u003cbr\u003e 2. Flyover Fiction as Republican Identity Politics\u003cbr\u003e Cornelia Klecker \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 2. Constructing Flyover Fictions in and with Film\u003cbr\u003e 3. “If You Build It . . .”: The Sports Experience Economy and Heartland Dreams\u003cbr\u003e Victoria E. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 4. Flying over the “Forgotten Man”: Affective Affordances, Sentimentalism, and White Working-Class Masculinity in Contemporary U.S. Cinema\u003cbr\u003e Stefan Schubert\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Midwestern Gothic in \u003ci\u003eIt Follows\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOnly Lovers Left Alive\u003c\/i\u003e: Acceleration, Vacancy, and Insiders\/Outsiders\u003cbr\u003e Adam R. Ochonicky \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 3. Flyover Fictions in Twentieth-Century Literature\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Literary Beginnings of Flyover Fiction in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e Sascha PÖhlmann\u003cbr\u003e 7. Writing the Midwest in Exile: Robert McAlmon’s \u003ci\u003eVillage: As It Happened through a Fifteen Year Period\u003c\/i\u003e and Queer Distance\u003cbr\u003e Ben Robbins\u003cbr\u003e 8. Flying over a Lynching: Constructions of Group Identity in Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square”\u003cbr\u003e Martin Holtz \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 4. Flyover Fictions in Twenty-First-Century Literature\u003cbr\u003e 9. Aerial Views, Pedestrian Ways: Fragmentation in D. J. Waldie’s \u003ci\u003eHoly Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dominika Ferens\u003cbr\u003e 10. “A Little Agony Was Just What This Place Needed”: Looking for California in Claire Vaye Watkins’s \u003ci\u003eGold Fame Citrus\u003c\/i\u003e and Lydia Kiesling’s \u003ci\u003eThe Golden State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Michael Docherty\u003cbr\u003e 11. Destination Flyover State: The Transnational Perspective of Joachim Meyerhoff’s \u003ci\u003eAll the Dead Fly Up: America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sandra Tausel \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 5. Finding Flyover Fictions (in Unusual Places and Unusual Ways)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Looking Back to Move Forward? Constructing Medieval Heritage in the Midwest\u003cbr\u003e Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Kristan Cockerill\u003cbr\u003e 13. Straight TikTok as Digital Flyover Country\u003cbr\u003e Mark Nunes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Literary Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Watchmaking: A Short Story\u003cbr\u003e Tom Drury \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600287002904,"sku":"9781496238993","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/flyover-fictions-polarization-in-u-s-american-culture-media-and-politics-hardback-9781496238993","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}