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Trump Fiction examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture before and during his presidency.
List of contents
Introduction: Reading Trump
Stephen Hock
Part I: The Cultural Prehistory of President Trump
Chapter One: A Truly "Free" Psychopathology: Notes on Trumpspace
David Markus
Chapter Two: Trump as "Daddy": American Psycho and Hero Worship in the Neoliberal Era
Caitlin R. Duffy
Chapter Three: Nation Surface Mirror Psycho: A Fantasy of Coherence
Clinton J. Craig
Chapter Four: "Is That Donald Trump's Car?": On the Trail of the Original American Psycho
William Magrino
Chapter Five: Memorializing the Future of Donald Trump in Amy Waldman's The Submission
Stephen Hock
Chapter Six: The Deep Web of Conspiracies: Under the Shadow of Trump Tower in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
Joseph M. Conte
Chapter Seven: From Faithful Readers to Fake News: Thomas Pynchon, Trump, and the Return of the Postmodern
William G. Welty
Chapter Eight: Trump Traces: Examining Donald Trump's Film and Television Cameos (1990-2004)
Ashleigh Hardin
Chapter Nine: Entitlement and Wealth: The Whiteness of Donald Trump
Peter Kragh Jensen
Chapter Ten: Trump for Kids: Can You Tell Us How to Get a Grump off Sesame Street?
Susan Gilmore
Part II: Trumpocalypse Now
Chapter Eleven: Howard Jacobson's Pussy and the Literary Hot Take
Tim Lanzendörfer
Chapter Twelve: "Terminal Stupidity": Graft Zeppelin and Trump Sky Alpha
Bruce Krajewski
Chapter Thirteen: Our Cartoon President and the Politics of Laughter
Steven Rosendale and Laura Gray-Rosendale
Chapter Fourteen: "Nobody Wants to See That Fuckhead": Ball Culture and Donald Trump in FX's Pose
Meredith James
Chapter Fifteen: Exhausting the Present: Twitter, Trump, and Engagement Fatigue in Olivia Laing's Crudo
Shannon Finck
Chapter Sixteen: "Be a Little Genrequeer": Rushdie's The Golden House in the Age of Post-Truth
Jaclyn Partyka
About the author
Stephen Hock is associate professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan University.Stephen Hock is associate professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan University.
Summary
Trump Fiction examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture before and during his presidency.
