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001			on1133663653
003			OCoLC
005			20210420105418.0
008			191219t20202020cauab 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019058872
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dYDX _dBDX _dABJ _dNZAUC _dNFG
019			_a1088842275
020			_a9780872867703 _q(trade paperback)
020			_a0872867706 _q(trade paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1133663653 _z(OCoLC)1088842275
042			_apcc
092			_aFOSTER, _bSESSHU
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aFoster, Sesshu, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aELADATL : _ba history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines / _cSesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo.
264		1	_aSan Francisco, CA : _bCity Lights Books, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a317 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aSky city -- Chicken man -- They said someone will come -- Kraken attacks and destroys L.A. zeppelins -- Following years without communications from downtown, This was what our agents reported -- Dear swirling alhambra -- Long light of afternoon -- The famous TV show -- So our best efforts were undone -- The last to know -- Dear swirling alhambra -- Ball lightning and the general hospital -- What Is the purpose of mystery: interview with Oscar Zeta Acosta -- Interview with Juan Fish -- Interview with the Virgin Defacer -- Fly the East L.A. Dirigible Transport Lines -- ZAD manifesto.
650		0	_aImaginary organizations _vFiction.
650		0	_aAirships _vFiction. _9174500
650		0	_aAir travel _vFiction. _958880
655		7	_aAlternative histories (Fiction) _2lcgft _951301
655		7	_aHumorous fiction. _2lcgft _9326
700	1		_aRomo, Arturo Ernesto, _d1980- _eauthor.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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