Graham Greene Takes Flight

Abstract:Drawing on advances in studies of airmindedness and aerial warfare by Peter Adey and Thomas Hippler, this essay traces Graham Greene’s preoccupation with flight and aerial perspective. In a writing career that stretched over half a century, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Greene addressed and articulated in fiction and journalism how flight altered and disrupted experiences and perceptions of time and space, both for those borne aloft and for those who remained grounded. In Greene’s works, the aeroplane emerges as a vehicle with the power to unsettle historiographical and geographical norms.