Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful presidential campaign (in terms that often uncannily prefigure his presidency) as well as those that have appeared since he took office. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture. By investigating how authors including Bret Easton Ellis, Amy Waldman, Thomas Pynchon, Howard Jacobson, Mark Doten, Olivia Laing, and Salman Rushdie, along with films and television programs like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street, Sex and the City, Two Weeks Notice, Our Cartoon President, and Pose have approached and shaped the discourse surrounding Trump, the contributors collectively demonstrate the ways these cultural artifacts serve as sites through which the culture both resists and abets Trump and his rise to power.
Introduction: Reading Trump Stephen Hock Part I: The Cultural Prehistory of President Trump Chapter One: A Truly "Free" Psychopathology: Notes on Trumpspace David Markus Chapter Two: Trump as "Daddy": American Psycho and Hero Worship in the Neoliberal Era Caitlin R. Duffy Chapter Three: Nation Surface Mirror Psycho: A Fantasy of Coherence Clinton J. Craig Chapter Four: "Is That Donald Trump's Car?": On the Trail of the Original American Psycho William Magrino Chapter Five: Memorializing the Future of Donald Trump in Amy Waldman's The Submission Stephen Hock Chapter Six: The Deep Web of Conspiracies: Under the Shadow of Trump Tower in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge Joseph M. Conte Chapter Seven: From Faithful Readers to Fake News: Thomas Pynchon, Trump, and the Return of the Postmodern William G. Welty Chapter Eight: Trump Traces: Examining Donald Trump's Film and Television Cameos (1990-2004) Ashleigh Hardin Chapter Nine: Entitlement and Wealth: The Whiteness of Donald Trump Peter Kragh Jensen Chapter Ten: Trump for Kids: Can You Tell Us How to Get a Grump off Sesame Street? Susan Gilmore Part II: Trumpocalypse Now Chapter Eleven: Howard Jacobson's Pussy and the Literary Hot Take Tim Lanzendoerfer Chapter Twelve: "Terminal Stupidity": Graft Zeppelin and Trump Sky Alpha Bruce Krajewski Chapter Thirteen: Our Cartoon President and the Politics of Laughter Steven Rosendale and Laura Gray-Rosendale Chapter Fourteen: "Nobody Wants to See That Fuckhead": Ball Culture and Donald Trump in FX's Pose Meredith James Chapter Fifteen: Exhausting the Present: Twitter, Trump, and Engagement Fatigue in Olivia Laing's Crudo Shannon Finck Chapter Sixteen: "Be a Little Genrequeer": Rushdie's The Golden House in the Age of Post-Truth Jaclyn Partyka
