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Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television

19 Tuesday Nov 2019

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Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television

Edited by Stephen Hock

CONTRIBUTIONS BY

Joseph M. Conte, Clinton J. Craig, Caitlin R. Duffy, Shannon Finck, Susan Gilmore, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Ashleigh Hardin, Stephen Hock, Meredith James, Peter Kragh Jensen, Bruce Krajewski, Tim Lanzendörfer, William Magrino, David Markus, Jaclyn Partyka, Steven Rosendale, and William G. Welty

“A masterful example of contemporary cultural studies, Trump Fiction assembles an array of insightful scholars working at the cutting edge of their fields to offer timely analyses of the social, cultural, and political phenomenon of Trumpism. By examining Trump’s presence in a dizzying array of cultural artifacts from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, the collection offers an invaluable historicization of the present. It also lays crucial groundwork for emerging conversations about the defining cultural forms of the present by exploring contemporary cultural responses to Trump’s candidacy and presidency. Filled with smart observations and juicy tidbits, these essays promise to engage, inform, and ultimately reshape the way we understand where we’ve been and where we’re going.”

— Mitchum Huehls, University of California, Los Angeles

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful presidential campaign (in terms that often uncannily prefigure his presidency) as well as those that have appeared since he took office. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture. By investigating how authors including Bret Easton Ellis, Amy Waldman, Thomas Pynchon, Howard Jacobson, Mark Doten, Olivia Laing, and Salman Rushdie, along with films and television programs like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street, Sex and the City, Two Weeks Notice, Our Cartoon President, and Pose have approached and shaped the discourse surrounding Trump, the contributors collectively demonstrate the ways these cultural artifacts serve as sites through which the culture both resists and abets Trump and his rise to power.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Stephen Hock is associate professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan University.

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Italian American Studies Association Conference

22 Saturday Oct 2016

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I’ll present a paper, “The Ritornati: Migration and Remigration in Sciascia’s ‘The Long Crossing’ and Tucci’s Big Night,” at the Italian American Studies Association Annual Conference, California State University, Long Beach, CA. November 3-5, 2016.

Abstract:

The turmoil regarding migration, immigration and remigration has engulfed both Italy (and the European Union more broadly) as well as the United States. There are two sides to the coin of migration, and historically the two countries have coped with surges of immigration and remigration (the return to one’s homeland) with unfortunately proscriptive strategies. Of the 64,900 migrants, most from sub-Saharan Africa, who sought political asylum in Italy in 2014. 6,944 were forcibly deported and the remainder of these refugees were expected to continue their trek to northern European Union countries rather than remain as “guest workers” in the struggling Italian economy.

The irony of such a massive migration into Italy and the European Union would not be lost on Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, whose story, “The Long Crossing,” concerns Sicilian villagers who are conned by that day’s version of human traffickers into believing they will be deposited (as illegal immigrants) on the shores of New Jersey. Between thirty-five and fifty percent of the mostly single males who ventured to L’America returned to Italy; the ritornati were indeed remigrants. In Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s film, Big Night (1996), chef Primo considers whether to return to work in his uncle’s restaurant in Rome, against his brother Secondo’s conviction that only America provides the opportunity for advancement. Migrants into both the United States and Italy have faced isolationist, xenophobic and anti-immigration political parties such as the Northern League and the Tea Party.

YaRD/Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg Essay

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

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My long-delayed essay on “The Intratextual Obscurity of Louis Zukofsky’s ‘A'” has been published by YaRD/The Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg (2010). A copy of the paper can be found under Journal Articles.

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Article Published in Journal of Language and Verbal Behaviour

08 Thursday Aug 2013

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“The Intratextual Obscurity of Louis Zukofsky’s “A”.”  Journal of Language and Verbal Behaviour [Язык и Речевая Деятельность] 9 (2009):  26-32.  The Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg.  St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

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Louis Zukofsky’s late poetry in the book “A” constitutes a kind of “intratext,” a poem that resides between two languages, dependent on a source text, but representing an original work on the part of the author. The bilingual character of the poem is not a translation, which traditionally emphasizes the carrying over of the sense of the original into the target language at the expense of sound, style and other poetic effects; rather Zukofsky emphasizes sound and style at the expense of a literal rendition. This compositional strategy creates a special kind of literary diffi culty that is not merely allusive of other works of literature, but a deliberate obscurity that appropriates and reconstitutes its source texts in the pursuit of an idiosyncratic linguistic beauty.

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“The Multimodal Icon” published in Passage

14 Sunday Jul 2013

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“The Multimodal Icon:  Sight, Sound and Intellection in Recent Poetries” has been published in Passage 69 (Summer 2013):  7-20.  Special issue on “Lyric at the Crossroads,” edited by Louise Mønster and Peter Stein Larsen, Aarhus University Press, Denmark.  Translated into Danish.

The original English version of the essay can be found under Journal Articles.

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Abstract for “The Multimodal Icon”

05 Friday Apr 2013

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“The Multimodal Icon:  Sight, Sound and Intellection in Recent Poetries.”  Invited and forthcoming in Passage, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

This paper examines the shift from single to multiple semiotic modes in poetry during the age of digital media.  While one can argue that in the history of poetry the text has always represented “sight, sound and intellection,” the propagation of digital media and the devolution of popular culture into a predominantly graphical regime have made an irrevocable impression on poetry-on-the-page.  The production of multimodal poetry in print literature presents the hybridization of text and image, or typography and the visual arts.  Modernist experiments in poetry largely confined themselves to the single semiotic mode of alphabetic typography.  By century’s end, however, digital page composition enabled the use of index, icon and symbol in increasingly complex relations.  In the multimodal poetry of Emily McVarish, Steve McCaffery and Geof Huth, the reader encounters two or more semiotic modes simultaneously.  The relation between text and image is not one of dependency (illustration; annotation) or autonomy (catalog; artist book) but rather a bilateral interactivity that requires and stimulates a cognitive poetics.  Such print works demand that readers pursue a multiplicity of reading paths and develop the interpretive skills required by multimodal metaphor in which signs are drawn from more than one mode.

Forthcoming article

15 Friday Feb 2013

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My keynote lecture, presented at Contemporary Poetry between Genres, Art Forms and Media, Aalborg University, Denmark, “The Multimodal Icon:  Sight, Sound and Intellection in Recent Poetries,”  will be published in the journal Passage by the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Aalborg University, Denmark. 24 October 2012.

Aalborg University, Denmark. 24 October 2012.

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