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Title Statement | ELADATL: a history of the East Los Angeles dirigible air transport lines / Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo. |
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Author | Foster, Sesshu |
Additional Contributors | Romo, Arturo Ernesto,1980- |
Publication | ©2020San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books,[2020] |
Extent of Item | 317 pages |
ISBN | 9780872867703 (pbk.) 0872867706 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3645829 |
Summary | 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. |
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By Topic | Air travel--Fiction |
Airships--Fiction | |
Imaginary organizations--Fiction | |
By Location | Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Fantasy fiction |
Humorous fiction |