Trump Fiction examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture before and during his presidency.
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