ELADATL : a short history of the East Los Angeles dirigible air transport lines
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Author
Contributors
Romo, Arturo Ernesto, 1980- author.
Published
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, 2020.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780872867703, 0872867706
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Fiction | FIC FOSTER | Available |
Florham Park Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION FOSTER | Available |
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Published
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, 2020.
Language
English
ISBN
9780872867703, 0872867706
Notes
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Foster, S., & Romo, A. E. (2020). ELADATL: a short history of the East Los Angeles dirigible air transport lines . City Lights Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Foster, Sesshu and Arturo Ernesto Romo. 2020. ELADATL: A Short History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines. City Lights Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Foster, Sesshu and Arturo Ernesto Romo. ELADATL: A Short History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines City Lights Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Foster, Sesshu,, and Arturo Ernesto Romo. ELADATL: A Short History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines City Lights Books, 2020.
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