This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives
of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret
stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not
always fit into standard ideas of these in-between places. Tales of
near disaster, endless delays, dramatic weather shifts, a lost bag
that suddenly appears-such stories are familiar accounts of a place
that seems to thrive on and recycle its own mythologies. The
Textual Life of Airports shows how airports demand to be read.
Working at the intersection of literary studies and cultural
theory, Schaberg tracks airport stories in American literature, as
well as in a range of visual texts (film, airport art, magazine
illustrations). It accounts for how airports appear in literature
throughout the twentieth-century, while also examining the influx
of airport figures in markedly post-9/11 literature and culture.
These literary and cultural representations work together to form
"the textual life of airports."
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