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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.

1. Prelude: The (Im)possible Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction
2. The Bachman Books and America’s Death Drive
3. King’s Cars and the Grinding Gears of Post-Fordism
4. Firestarter; Or, the Smelting of a Neoliberal Subject
5. IT, Individualism, and the Idea of Community
6. Interlude: The Langoliers and the Political Event
7. Human Capital in Rose Madder
8. Under the Dome and the Deteriorating Demos
9. The Outsider and the Shifting Shapes of Trumpism
10. Postlude: Revolutions of The Stand

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Horror

Fiction

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	01 janvier 2021
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781786836472
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	10 Mo

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Stephen King AND AMERICAN POLITICS

HORROR STUDIES

Series Editor Xavier Aldana Reyes, Mancester Metropolitan University

Editorial Board Stacey Abbott, Roeampton University Linnie Blake, Mancester Metropolitan University Harry M. Bensoﬀ, University of Nort Texas Fred Botting, Kingston University Steven Brum, Western University Steﬀen Hantke, Sogang University Joan Hawkins, Indiana University Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausanne Bernice M. Murpy, Trinity College Dublin Jonny Walker, Nortumbria University

Preface Horror Studies is te ﬁrst book series exclusively dedicated to te study of te genre in its various manifestations – from ﬁction to cinema and televi-sion, magazines to comics, and extending to oter forms of narrative texts suc as video games and music. Horror Studies aims to raise te proﬁle of Horror and to furter its academic institutionalisation by providing a pub-lising ome for cutting-edge researc. As an exciting new venture witin te establised Cultural Studies and Literary Criticism programme, Horror Studies will expand te ﬁeld in innovative and student-friendly ways.

Stephen King AND AMERICAN POLITICS

MICHAEL J. BLOUIN

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2021

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ISBN 978-1-78683-646-5 eISBN 978-1-78683-647-2

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Prelude:he (Im)possible Politics of Stepen King’s Fiction

he Bacman Books and America’s Deat Drive

King’s Cars and te Grinding Gears of Post-Fordism

Firestarter;or, te Smelting of a Neo-liberal Subject

IT, Individualism, and te Idea of Community

Interlude:he Langoliersand te Political Event

Human Capital inRose Madder

Under tHe Domeand te Deteriorating Demos

he Outsiderand te Sifting Sapes of Trumpism

10. Postlude:Revolutions ofhe Stand

Notes

Bibliograpy

Index

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Acknowledgements

HEN I DECIDED to return to Stepen King’s ﬁction, it felt like W coming ome. I spent a good deal of my time in college locating countless treasures in te dark and dismal corners of is works – an endeav-our tat eventually nudged me into a career in academia. Most fortunately, I met my future partner Kate in a course dedicated to tis subject. Our sared appreciation of King’s writing elped to spark our love. I decided to cart my own pat in te years tat followed by gaining greater insigt into critical teory as well as popular culture (speciﬁcally, in conversation wit neo-liberalism). But te road as led me back to King. One day,I found myself quite unexpectedly sitting down to tink troug is ﬁc-tion wit fres eyes. Wat ensued was te profoundly joyful experience of writing tis book. Kate gave me te time and space to write tis book, and se inspired me on a daily basis to be a better person. Her generous spirit reminds me tat tings can, in fact, always be oterwise. My daugters Emerson and Willow distracted me, in te best possible way, and ﬁlled my eart wit ligt wen te nature of te researc weiged me down. My moter Melissa provided me wit conﬁdence wen doubts crept to te surface.I am extremely fortunate to ave tese people in my life. I also owe a great deal to my most formative professors, Tony Mag-istrale and Gary Hoppenstand, bot igly respected experts on King’s ﬁction. Once upon a time, tey taugt me to take King seriously and to reﬂect upon unlooked-for aspects of is corpus. As a collaborator on a