Joey Franklin

Delusions of Grandeur (eBook, ePUB)

American Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Delusions of Grandeur Joey Franklin examines the dreams and delusions of America's most persistent mythologies-including the beliefs in white supremacy and rugged individualism and the problems of toxic masculinity and religious extremism-as they reveal themselves in the life of a husband and father fast approaching forty. With prose steeped in research and a playful, lyric attention to language, Franklin asks candid questions about what it takes to see clearly as a citizen, a parent, a child, a neighbor, and a human being. How should a white father from the suburbs talk with his sons about the death of Trayvon Martin? What do video games like Fortnite and Minecraft reveal about our appetites for destruction? Is it possible for Americans to celebrate bootstrap pioneer history while also lamenting the slavery that made it possible? How does the American tradition of exploiting cheap labor create a link between coal mining and plasma donation in southeast Ohio? Part cultural critique, part parental confessional, Delusions of Grandeur embraces the notion that the personal is always political, and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496224729
• Artikelnr.: 60866546

Autorenporträt

Joey Franklin is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University and the coeditor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. He is the author of My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married (Nebraska, 2015), and his shorter work has appeared in many literary magazines and edited collections, including Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Best of Brevity, and the Norton Reader.   

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
Delusions of Grandeur: An Introduction 
Toy Soldiers 
Girl Fight 
Good Enough 
Stuck 
White Trash 
Not in My Backyard 
Thursday Night Lights 
The Full Montaigne 
Worry Lines 
Apocalypse, Now? 
A Note on Notes 
Notes