The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight

by Christopher Schaberg

Book Overview

This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not always fit into standard ideas of these in-between places. Tales of near disaster, endless delays, dramatic weather shifts, a lost bag that suddenly appears-such stories are familiar accounts of a place that seems to thrive on and recycle its own mythologies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441189688
• ISBN13: 9781441189684
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher