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The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination de Professor or Dr. Michael J. Blouin

The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination

Autor Professor or Dr. Michael J. Blouin
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The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written-consider, for example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations-and many readers of all stripes are radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these changes within a broader cultural context, Michael J. Blouin investigates narratives involving fictional presidents, from the supposedly factual to the outright fantastical, within their distinct literary and historical moments. The author considers representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore Cooper from the Jacksonian moment, Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon and Vietnam, and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through detailed readings that question how American presidents function as characters within the popular imagination, this book examines the presidency as a complex, ever-evolving trope, and in so doing enhances our appreciation of American literature's inextricable link with American politics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501381690
ISBN-10: 1501381695
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Proposes a renewed understanding of the diverse ways in which American authors have been involved in Presidential discourse

Notă biografică

Michael J. Blouin is Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Milligan University, USA, where he co-founded and now directs the Honors Program. He serves as chair for Literature, Politics, and Society for the Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA), and is the author of Stephen King and American Politics (2021) and Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972 - 2017 (2018).

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moving Portraits of the President 1. James Fenimore Cooper's Exceptional Presidents2. George Lippard and the Gothic President3. Williams Wells Brown and the Disembodied President4. The President in Books for Boys5. The President in Books for Girls6. Hamlin Garland, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Tortured Heart of American Realism7. Gore Vidal and the Performative Presidency8. The Imperial Presidents of American LiteratureEpilogue: George Saunders and Presidential Melancholia ReferencesIndex

Recenzii

Michael Blouin has written a truly remarkable, and remarkably important, study of the American presidency here, treating major representations of the chief executive in works of fiction over nearly two centuries but looking beyond these visions as well. He takes into account the notion of 'presidentialism' itself, inviting us to see the office itself as a kind of necessary fiction, one that functions oddly in a supposedly democratic nation. Blouin's book is, I think, a hugely interesting and important contribution to the aesthetics of politics, and it sheds light on how we live our corporate lives - not something one often sees in an academic study. This book deserves a wide and appreciative audience.
In this wide-ranging analysis of fictional US presidents, Michael Blouin shows how literary authors-highbrow and low-have countered the gravitational force of US presidentialism. The Fictional POTUS lets readers focus and practice their desires for US democracy on historical and imagined presidents in ways that, as he urges, are good for democracy. Literary presidents serve as a 'vital catalyst that reminds readers of their dissatisfaction' with presidential failures and democratic shortcomings, letting them practice wanting more and imagining better. The fictional POTUS teaches readers that 'dissatisfaction [is] one of democracy's greatest gifts' thus serving as a powerful corrective to the anti-democratic symbolics and practices of the US presidency.
A remarkable achievement, this investigation into Presidentialism - both as an actual figure and idea - is a more than timely reminder of the schisms that persist at the heart of American democracy. This is an important study of some of the fictions that American presidents have both engendered and capitalized on throughout history; in other words, a must read for serious students of American cultural history, literature, and politics.