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Lädt ... ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines (2021. Auflage)von Sesshu Foster (Autor), Arturo Ernesto Romo (Autor)
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"In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles-some as large as one thousand feet long-was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel in the pre-apocalyptic Southwest, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. ELADATL tells the story of this little-known period of American air travel in a series of overlapping narratives told by key figures, accompanied by a number of historic photographs and recently discovered artifacts, with appendices provided to fill in the missing links. The story of the rise and fall of this ill-fated airship movement investigates its long-buried history, replete with heroes, villains, and moments of astonishing triumph and terrifying disaster. Written and presented as an "actual history of a fictional company," this surrealist, experimental novel is a tour de force of politicized fantastic fiction, a work of hybrid art-making distilled into a truly original literary form. Developed over a ten-year period of collaborations, community interventions, and staged performances, ELADATL is a furiously hilarious send-up of academic histories, mainstream narratives, and any traditional notions of the time-space continuum"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines (ELADATL) is the fictional history of a Transport Line that never existed but in its telling feels like it did exist, must exist, and may one day exist again.
ELADATL is a like Murakami's IQ84 but it's a fictional history. A cast of Latin/Latino/Latinx characters in a parallel Los Angeles that intersects and then separates from the real.
Its a serious fictional-history but also a tale of high-level absurdity and written with real humor. The book shifts from history to scenes back to history and then to illustrations and back again to history book style interviews and evidence from this real-fictional history novel.
ELADTL is like nothing you have ever read. It is a glorious mess of a history. Like the city of Los Angeles itself ELADTL is absurd, real, fictional, messy, and all at once earnest. ( )