Flyover Fictions

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Introduction: What Are Flyover Fictions?
Cornelia Klecker and Sascha PÖhlmann

Part 1. Flyover Fictions and Contemporary U.S.-American Politics
1. Rethinking “Flyover Country” in the Age of American Hyperpolarization
Anthony Harkins
2. Flyover Fiction as Republican Identity Politics
Cornelia Klecker

Part 2. Constructing Flyover Fictions in and with Film
3. “If You Build It . . .”: The Sports Experience Economy and Heartland Dreams
Victoria E. Johnson
4. Flying over the “Forgotten Man”: Affective Affordances, Sentimentalism, and White Working-Class Masculinity in Contemporary U.S. Cinema
Stefan Schubert
5. The Midwestern Gothic in It Follows and Only Lovers Left Alive: Acceleration, Vacancy, and Insiders/Outsiders
Adam R. Ochonicky

Part 3. Flyover Fictions in Twentieth-Century Literature
6. The Literary Beginnings of Flyover Fiction in the 1920s
Sascha PÖhlmann
7. Writing the Midwest in Exile: Robert McAlmon’s Village: As It Happened through a Fifteen Year Period and Queer Distance
Ben Robbins
8. 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
9. Aerial Views, Pedestrian Ways: Fragmentation in D. J. Waldie’s Holy Land
Dominika Ferens
10. “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
11. 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)
12. Looking Back to Move Forward? Constructing Medieval Heritage in the Midwest
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Kristan Cockerill
13. Straight TikTok as Digital Flyover Country
Mark Nunes

Literary Epilogue
Watchmaking: A Short Story
Tom Drury

Contributors
Index