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Biggest Elvis: A Novel
''Biggest Elvis'', also known as ''Biggest Elvis: A Novel'',〔 is the first novel〔 written by American author P. F. Kluge, an ex-U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Pacific region〔 and writer-in-residence at Kenyon College.〔Lobanov-Rostovsky, Sergei. (Guns, Drugs, and Elvis: A Guide to Research for Fiction Writers ), A novelist and creative writing teacher revises the injunction to "write what you know"], bulletin.kenyon.edu〕 This 1996 literary piece started out as a journalistic writing for ''Playboy'' magazine, to illustrate the nightlife in brothels and nightclubs when fleets of American naval servicemen dock for sailor’s shore-leave〔 on the port of Olongapo City.〔 It is also a portrayal of the entrapment of poverty-stricken residents of Olongapo within a "military economy" through the nightly and ritualistic on-stage rebirths, deaths, and resurrections of Elvis Presley by three American copycats living and making a livelihood while in the Philippines.〔
==Thematic description==
In general, Kluge’s ''Biggest Elvis'' is the story of a former college professor and of America itself.〔Eder, Richard. (Pretenders to the King's Throne ), Biggest Elvis by P.F. Kluge, Fiction, Article Collections, Los Angeles Times, articles.latimes.com, August 04, 1996〕 The "part mystery" and "part love story" novel〔 is set in Olongapo City, a Philippine town closest to Subic Naval Base, a former U.S. naval installation in the Far East during the 1990s. As a narrative and a commentary〔Inskeep, Steve and Nancy Pearl. (A Librarian Suggests Some Escapist Fare ), Summertime, and the Reading is Easy, npr.org, July 23, 2004〕 regarding American "cultural imperialism"〔 – including "pop-culturalism"〔 – in the Asian region, and the final years of militaristic presence of the United States in Subic Bay, ''Biggest Elvis'' protagonizes three American Elvis Presley impersonators and caricatures〔 who performs in a nightclub known as "Graceland",〔(Biggest Elvis: A Novel by P. F. Kluge ), flipkart.com〕 a building that started-out as a movie theater.〔Ferguson, Sarah. (Graceland in the Philippines ), Books in Brief: Nonfiction, Books, The New York Times, nytimes.com, September 1, 1996〕
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