Stephen King and American Politics
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Stephen King and American Politics

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Stephen King and American Politics

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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.

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Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781786836472
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Prelude: The (Im)possible Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction
  8. 2 The Bachman Books and America’s Death Drive
  9. 3 King’s Cars and the Grinding Gears of Post-Fordism
  10. 4 Firestarter: or, the Smelting of a Neo-liberal Subject
  11. 5 IT, Individualism, and the Idea of Community
  12. 6 Interlude: The Langoliers and the Political Event
  13. 7 Human Capital in Rose Madder
  14. 8 Under the Dome and the Deteriorating Demos
  15. 9 The Outsider and the Shifting Shapes of Trumpism
  16. 10 Postlude: Revolutions of The Stand
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover