| Description |
1 online resource (x, 221 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Costerus ; new ser., 187
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 187.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Writing the Heavenly Frontier; I THE MUNDANE TO THE MIRACULOUS; II THE COLORS OF THE EARTH AND THE SANCTITY OF SPACE; III MASCULINE SPACES AND WOMEN FLYERS; IV AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES AND IMPERIAL DISCOURSES; Epilogue Late Century Metaphors: Larry Walters and the Rich Man's Wedding Cake; Index. |
| Summary |
Writing the Heavenly Frontier celebrates the early voices of the air as it examines the sky as a metaphorical and political landscape. While flight histories usually focus on the physical dangers of early aviation, this book introduces the figurative liabilities of ascension. Early pilot-writers not only grappled with an unwieldy machine, they also grappled with poetics that were extremely selective. Tropes that cast Charles Lindbergh as the transcendent hero of the new millennium were the same ones that kept women, black Americans, and indigenous peoples imaginatively tethered to the ground. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Air pilots -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Air pilots. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9789042032972 (electronic book) |
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9042032979 (electronic book) |
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9789042032965 |
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9042032960 |
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