Stephen King and American Politics

AvMichael J. Blouin

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

From The Long Walk to The Outsider, Stephen King's output reflects the major political concerns of the previous fifty years. This book, Stephen King and American Politics, is the first sustained study of the complex ways in which King's texts speak to their unique political moments. By exploring this aspect of the author's popular works, readers might better understand the numerous crises that Americans currently face in a book that surveys King's corpus to address a wide range of issues - including the spread of neoliberalism, the Bush-Cheney doctrine, and the chaos of the populist present. Although his fiction outwardly declares itself to be anti-political - thus reflecting a widespread shift away from democracy in the aftermath of the 1960s - political energies persist just beneath the surface. Given the possibility of a political resurgence that haunts so many of his page-turners, Stephen King produces horror and hope in equal measure.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-15
Mått:138 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt:334 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Horror Studies
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9781786836465

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Michael J. Blouin PhD is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Milligan College. His recent publications include Stephen King and American History, co-authored with Tony Magistrale (forthcoming).

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“Stephen King and American Politics provides the key for unlocking the political importance of Stephen King’s fiction. Through Michael Blouin’s perceptive analysis, this ostensibly apolitical fiction becomes the site for a completely unforeseen form of fictional politics that embraces the impossibility of its aims. This groundbreaking new book shows the possibility for reconceiving the politics of aesthetics through attention to how King’s narratives deploy the variegations of desire.”

Innehållsförteckning

1.Prelude: The (Im)possible Politics of Stephen King's Fiction2.The Bachman Books and America's Death Drive3.King's Cars and the Grinding Gears of Post-Fordism4.Firestarter; Or, the Smelting of a Neoliberal Subject5.IT, Individualism, and the Idea of Community6.Interlude: The Langoliers and the Political Event7.Human Capital in Rose Madder8.Under the Dome and the Deteriorating Demos9.The Outsider and the Shifting Shapes of Trumpism10. Postlude: Revolutions of The Stand