LEADER 04086nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910789614303321 005 20230515180143.0 010 $a1-283-03458-1 010 $a9786613034588 010 $a90-420-3297-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042032972 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081230 035 $a(EBL)682434 035 $a(OCoLC)711871033 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000520533 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12233456 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520533 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10514256 035 $a(PQKB)10590073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC682434 035 $a(OCoLC)711871033$z(OCoLC)961506764$z(OCoLC)962574160$z(OCoLC)968305493$z(OCoLC)988520405$z(OCoLC)991916916 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042032972 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL682434 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456313 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL303458 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081230 100 $a20110406d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting the heavenly frontier$b[electronic resource] $emetaphor, geography and flight autobiography in America 1927-1954 /$fDenice Turner 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 225 1 $aCosterus ;$vnew ser., 187 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3296-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- WRITING THE HEAVENLY FRONTIER -- IMAGINATIVE GEOGRAPHIES AND THE INVENTION OF THE AERIAL SUBJECT -- FROM PILOT TO POET: THE TRANSFORMATION OF LINDBERGH -- POLAR FRONTIERS AND PUBLIC FICTIONS: SKYWARD WITH RICHARD E. BYRD -- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DEMANDS AND HISTORICAL REALITIES -- JIMMY COLLINS AND THE TETHERS OF MATERIALITY -- FLIGHT AS EMANCIPATION: WILLIAM J. POWELL?S DREAM OF BLACK WINGS -- THE FLYING BOUDOIR -- THE SOUND OF WINGS: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BY AMELIA EARHART -- LOUISE THADEN AND THE TETHERS OF MOTHERHOOD -- FLIGHT AS UPWARD MOBILITY: JACKIE COCHRAN AND THE STARS AT NOON -- TRANSCENDENCE ABROAD -- CULTIVATING THE GARDEN: ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY AND THE NOBLE STRUGGLE -- ESCAPING THE WILDERNESS: ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH AND THE EPIC JOURNEY -- LATE CENTURY METAPHORS: LARRY WALTERS AND THE RICH MAN?S WEDDING CAKE -- INDEX. 330 $aWriting the Heavenly Frontier celebrates the early voices of the air as it examines the sky as a metaphorical and political landscape. While flight histories usually focus on the physical dangers of early aviation, this book introduces the figurative liabilities of ascension. Early pilot-writers not only grappled with an unwieldy machine; they also grappled with poetics that were extremely selective. Tropes that cast Charles Lindbergh as the transcendent hero of the new millennium were the same ones that kept women, black Americans, and indigenous peoples imaginatively tethered to the ground. The most popular flight autobiographies in the United States posited a hero who rose from the mundane to the miraculous; and yet the most startling autobiographies point out the social factors that limited or forbade vertical movement?both literally and figuratively. A survey of pilot writing, the book will appeal to flight enthusiasts and people interested in American autobiography and culture. But it will also appeal strongly to readers interested in the poetics and politics of place. 410 0$aCosterus ;$vnew ser., v. 187. 606 $aAir pilots$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aFlight$xHistory 606 $aAeronautics$xHuman factors$zUnited States 610 $aPilots$aAuthorship$aUnited States$aHistory$a20th century 615 0$aAir pilots 615 0$aFlight$xHistory. 615 0$aAeronautics$xHuman factors 676 $a940.54/4082 700 $aTurner$b Denice H.$f1964-$01523048 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789614303321 996 $aWriting the heavenly frontier$93763113 997 $aUNINA