Ghostwriting and Its Contradictions, Or

Junker, Carsten; Löffler, Marie-Luise

Ghostwriting and Its Contradictions, Or

Meet the Trumps

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	39	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	66	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Junker, Carsten
dc.contributor.author	Löffler, Marie-Luise
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-16T09:47:00Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-16T09:47:00Z
dc.date.issued	2019	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This contribution explores ghostwriting as a cultural practice marked by contradictions. It takes as its example the case of Donald J. Trump’s ghostwritten memoir titled Trump: The Art of the Deal from 1987. Following Trump’s announcement to run for the U.S. presidency in 2016, the ghostwriter of his memoir, Tony Schwartz, publicly announced that the book had not been written by Trump but by him instead, thus contradicting Trump’s claim to the authorship of the book. The debate around this disclosure points to one aspect of contradictions discussed in the chapter: the ghostwriter’s act of contradicting the pact between author and ghostwriter according to which the latter remain in the background. The chapter further highlights how the book itself delineates and mobilizes various dialectical contradictions, arguing that the text straddles various contradictory fault lines concerning the relationship between fact and fiction, the in/authenticity of the content of the book, the in/visibility of its ghostwriter, and the power/lessness of both author and ghostwriter in the cultural field. Hence it is argued that the practice of ghostwriting is a paradigmatic case of deploying contradictions as a constitutive element of (American) literature and cultures and their theorization.	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-658-25989-1
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-658-25990-7
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2841
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publishedIn	Wiesbaden	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden	en_US
dc.relation.doi	10.1007/978-3-658-25990-7
dc.relation.editor	Lossau, Julia
dc.relation.editor	Schmidt-Brücken, Daniel
dc.relation.editor	Warnke, Ingo H.
dc.relation.ispartof	Spaces of Dissension	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofalt	Towards a New Perspective on Contradiction	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Contradiction Studies;
dc.rights	L::The Stacks License	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:810	en_US
dc.subject.field	americanstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	literarystudies	en_US
dc.title	Ghostwriting and Its Contradictions, Or	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Meet the Trumps	en_US
dc.type	anthologyArticle	en_US
dc.type.version	acceptedVersion	en_US
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