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Stephen King and American Politics (Blouin, Michael J.)
Stephen King and American Politics
Autor Blouin, Michael J.
Verlag University of Wales Press
Sprache Englisch
Mediaform PDF
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
Seiten 256 S.
Artikelnummer 36546798
ISBN 978-1-78683-647-2
Auflage 21001 A. 1. Auflage
Plattform PDF
Reihe Horror Studies
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CHF 77.10
Zusammenfassung
From The Long Walk to The Outsider, Stephen King's output reflects the major political concerns of the previous fifty years. This book 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 - the book 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 the 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.

This book will be of particular interest for students at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as for scholars of popular culture and politics.