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  1. Writing the heavenly frontier
    metaphor, geography, and flight autobiography in America 1927-1954
    Author: Turner, Denice H.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9042032960; 9042032979; 9789042032965; 9789042032972
    Series: Costerus ; new ser., v. 187
    Subjects: Social Science; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; Air pilots; Autobiography; Flugzeugführer
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 221 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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

    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